fish Flashcards
fish
vertebral column
the animal subphylum Vertebra, or vertebrates, of the phylum Chordata
neural crest
a collection of multipotent stem cells located at the side of the neural tube proximal to the epidermal layer after neurulation
fin
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
scale
a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish
operculum
a structure that closes or covers an aperture
atrium
receives oxygen-depleted blood and pumps it into the ventricle, the ventricle is the largest and most muscular chamber of the heart
ventricle
muscular chamber that pumps blood out of the heart
nephron
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
lateral line
a sensory system that allows fishes to detect weak water motions and pressure gradients
spawn
have babies
swim bladder
a gas-filled organ in the dorsal coelomic cavity of fish that maintains buoyancy
jawless fish
any of various primitive fish of the class Agnatha that lack jaws
Cartilaginous fish
a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyians, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage
bony fish
a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue
bowfin/dogfish
a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique
brown bullhead
a fish of the family Ictaluridae that is widely distributed in North America
brown trout
a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo
burbot/eelpout
a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere
common carp
a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia
crappie
two species of North American freshwater fish of the genus Pomoxis in the family Centrarchidae
flathead catfish
a large species of North American freshwater catfish in the family Ictaluridae
lake sturgeon
a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon
lake trout
a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America
largemouth bass
a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico
long-nose gar
a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America for about 100 million years
muskellunge
a species of large freshwater predatory fish native to North America. It is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae
northern pike
a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox
rainbow trout
a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America
sauger
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
sheepshead
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
smallmouth bass
a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of the order Perciformes
smelt
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
sunfish
any fish in the genus Mola
walleye
a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States
white sucker
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
yellow bullhead
a species of bullhead catfish, a ray-finned fish that lacks scales
yellow perch
a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America
