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fish

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vertebral column

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the animal subphylum Vertebra, or vertebrates, of the phylum Chordata

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neural crest

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a collection of multipotent stem cells located at the side of the neural tube proximal to the epidermal layer after neurulation

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fin

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a flattened appendage on various parts of the body of many aquatic vertebrates and some invertebrates, including fish and cetaceans, used for propelling, steering, and balancing

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scale

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a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish

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operculum

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a structure that closes or covers an aperture

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atrium

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receives oxygen-depleted blood and pumps it into the ventricle, the ventricle is the largest and most muscular chamber of the heart

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ventricle

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muscular chamber that pumps blood out of the heart

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nephron

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each of the functional units in the kidney, consisting of a glomerulus and its associated tubule, through which the glomerular filtrate passes before emerging as urine

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lateral line

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a sensory system that allows fishes to detect weak water motions and pressure gradients

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spawn

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have babies

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swim bladder

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a gas-filled organ in the dorsal coelomic cavity of fish that maintains buoyancy

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jawless fish

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any of various primitive fish of the class Agnatha that lack jaws

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Cartilaginous fish

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a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyians, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage

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bony fish

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a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue

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bowfin/dogfish

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a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique

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brown bullhead

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a fish of the family Ictaluridae that is widely distributed in North America

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brown trout

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a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo

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burbot/eelpout

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a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere

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common carp

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a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia

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crappie

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two species of North American freshwater fish of the genus Pomoxis in the family Centrarchidae

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flathead catfish

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a large species of North American freshwater catfish in the family Ictaluridae

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lake sturgeon

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a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon

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lake trout

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a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America

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largemouth bass

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a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico

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long-nose gar

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a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America for about 100 million years

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muskellunge

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a species of large freshwater predatory fish native to North America. It is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae

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northern pike

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a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox

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rainbow trout

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a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America

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sauger

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a freshwater perciform fish of the family Percidae that resembles its close relative, the walleye. The species is a member of the largest vertebrate order, the Perciformes. It is the most migratory percid species in North America

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sheepshead

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a marine fish that grows to 76 cm, but commonly reaches 30 to 50 cm. It is deep and compressed in body shape, with five or six dark bars on the side of the body over a gray background, It has sharp dorsal spines

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smallmouth bass

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a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of the order Perciformes

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smelt

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a family of small fish, the Osmeridae, found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, as well as rivers, streams and lakes in Europe, North America and Northeast Asia

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sunfish

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any fish in the genus Mola

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walleye

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a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States

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white sucker

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a species of freshwater cypriniform fish inhabiting the upper Midwest and Northeast in North America, but it is also found as far south as Georgia and as far west as New Mexico

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yellow bullhead

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a species of bullhead catfish, a ray-finned fish that lacks scales

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yellow perch

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a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America

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