fish Flashcards
defines the animal subphylum Vertebra, or vertebrates, of the phylum Chordata
Vertebral Column
The neural tube expands in the head to form the brain and in the trunk to form the spinal cord
Neural crest
a flattened appendage on various parts of the body of many aquatic vertebrates used for propelling, steering, and balancing.
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Fin
a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin
Scale
a secreted plate that closes the aperture of a gastropod mollusk’s shell when the animal is retracted.
Operculum
heart chamber that receives blood into the heart and drives it into a ventricle, or chamber, for pumping blood away from the heart.
Atrium
a hollow part or cavity in an organ.
Ventricle
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.
Nephron
system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.
Lateral line
release or deposit eggs
Spawning
The swim bladder is a gas-filled organ in the dorsal coelomic cavity of fish. Its primary function is maintaining buoyancy, but it is also involved in respiration, sound production, and possibly perception of pressure fluctuations
Swim bladder
no jaw
Jawless fish
skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.
Cartilaginous fish
a skeleton of bone, scales, paired fins, one pair of gill openings, jaws, and paired nostrils.
Bony fish
olive in color . The caudal fin is rounded. The dorsal fin is long and extends for more than half of the length of the body.
Bowfin/Dogfish
Its olive or yellowish-brown. It has a yellowish-white belly. broad, flat head and four pairs of dark, whisker-like barbels around its mouth.
Brown Bullhead
yellow-orange-olive-brown sides, which are underneath dozens of black, brown, and red spots and iridescent cheeks.
Brown Trout
skin that ranges in color from black to grey to olive and even yellow. They have elongated dorsal and anal fins that extend all the way to a rounded caudal fin and a distinct
Burbot/Eelpout
grayish-blue sides with a black back and a white belly. with whiskers
Channel Catfish
large omnivorous fish. They have large scales, a long dorsal fin base, and two pairs of long barbels (whiskers) in its upper jaw
Common Carp
have a deep and laterally compressed body. They are usually silvery-gray to green in color and show irregular or mottled black splotches over the entire body.
Crappie
t has smooth, scaleless skin, whisker-like barbels around the mouth, and long spines on the dorsal fin and one on each side of the pectoral fin. has a flat head
Flathead Catfish
flattened snout, with large, fleshy barbels and a protractile mouth located under the head. The lower lip has 2 slightly papillose lobes
Lake Sturgeon
a deeply forked caudal fin and a slate grey to greenish body with lighter undersides
Lake Trout
an olive-green to greenish gray fish, marked by a series of dark, sometimes black, blotches forming a jagged horizontal stripe along each flank.
Largemouth Bass
long, cylindrical body that varies in color from brown to dark olive, with a pale, silvery or whitish belly.
Long-nose Gar
long, torpedo-shaped fish with dorsal and anal fins set close to the tail
Muskellunge
stream-lined - long, slender but muscular, and torpedo-shaped with greenish body coloration on the top and sides, and very light or white coloration on the underside.
Northern Pike
a large, torpedo shaped fish. silver belly and a pink stripe on the sides of its body.
Rainbow Trout
gray to dark silver or yellowish brown with dark blotches on sides.
Sauger
large, round-profiled, silver humpbacked fish. small tail and a silvery cast to its scales. Its mouth is located toward bottom of its face.
Sheepshead
Their elongate body is pale brown or olive green, while their belly is yellow-white in color.
Smallmouth Bass
relatively small, silvery fishes with a very slender, cylindrical shape
Smelt
bluish region on the cheek and gill cover. They are a deep, slab-sided (tall and flat) fish with a small mouth
Sunfish
long and thin, primarily gold and olive in color, with a white belly. The back is crossed with five or more black bands. They have two dorsal fins—one spiny and one soft-rayed
Walleye
an olive brown to black with shading to white on the under side of the fish. They are long and round-bodied with scales that increase in size from the front to the back.
White Sucker
typically light yellow to olive-green on the back. The belly is yellowish to white.
Yellow Bullhead
stocky torpedo shaped body. They are pale yellow to bright orange with 6-7 dark, vertical bars on their side. Their mouth is small and points forward
Yellow Perch
