fish Flashcards
Vertebral Column
defines 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
consist of a membrane supported by rod-shaped structures called rays and spines.
Scale
they protect them
Operculum
the bony flap that protects the gills from harm.
Atrium
eceives oxygen-depleted blood and pumps it into the ventricle.
Ventricle
a hollow part or cavity in an organ.
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 system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.
Spawning
release or deposit eggs.
Swim bladder
maintaining buoyancy
Jawless fish
hagfish or lampreys
Cartilaginous fish
Blacktip Reef Shark.
Bonnethead Shark.
Electric Rays.
Bony fish
salmon, tuna, swordfish, perch, flounder, herring, and clownfish.
Bowfin/Dogfish
The bowfin is a tubular, olive-green fish with a scaleless head and two barbels on its face.
Brown Bullhead
The brown bullhead is a fish of the family Ictaluridae that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead and yellow bullhead.
Brown Trout
The brown trout is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe
Burbot/Eelpout
The burbot, also known as bubbot, mariah, loche, cusk, freshwater cod, freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere
Channel Catfish
The channel catfish is North America’s most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a “channel cat”. In the United States, they are the most fished catfish species with around 8 million anglers targeting them per year
Common Carp
The Eurasian carp or European carp, widely known as the common carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.
Crappie
Crappies are two species of North American freshwater fish of the genus Pomoxis in the family Centrarchidae. Both species of crappies are popular game fish among recreational anglers.
Flathead Catfish
The flathead catfish, also called by several common names including mudcat or shovelhead cat, is a large species of North American freshwater catfish in the family Ictaluridae. It is the only species of the genus Pylodictis.
Lake Sturgeon
The lake sturgeon, also known as the rock sturgeon, is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon.
Lake Trout
The lake trout is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char, touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lea
Largemouth Bass
The largemouth bass is 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
The longnose gar, also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America for about 100 million years.
Muskellunge
The muskellunge, often shortened to muskie, musky, ski, or lunge, is a species of large freshwater predatory fish native to North America. It is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae
Northern Pike
The northern pike is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox. They are commonly found in moderately salty and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere. They are known simply as a pike in Great Britain, Ireland, most of Eastern Europe, Canada and the U.S. Pike can grow to a relatively large size
Rainbow Trout
The rainbow trout is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead is an anadromous form of the coastal rainbow trout or Columbia River redband trout that usually returns to freshwater to spawn after living two to three years in the ocean
Sauger
The sauger is 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
Archosargus probatocephalus, the sheepshead, is 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
The smallmouth bass is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of the order Perciformes. It is the type species of its genus Micropterus, and is a popular game fish sought by anglers throughout
Smelt
Smelts are 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
Centrarchidae, better known as sunfishes, is a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes, native only to North America
Walleye
The walleye, also called the yellow pike or yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European zander, also known as the pikeperch
White Sucker
The white sucker is 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
The yellow bullhead is a species of bullhead catfish, a ray-finned fish that lacks scales
