Fish Flashcards
Chordates
At some point have the following
1- presence of a notochord
2-pharyngeal slits
3- dorsal, hollow nerve cord
4-post anal tail
Cephalochordates
Cepha= “mostly head”
Tunicates
Tuni= “mostly tail”
Vertebrates
Have a backbone and chondrocranium
Chondrocranium
Cartilaginous skeleton that supports the brain, jaws and sensory organs
Agnatha
No jaws
No teeth
No paired fins (pectoral or pelvic)
Placodermi
(First)Jawed fish with dermal (external and individual) plates
Ostracodermi
Jawless, had entire shell like skin, “eel like”
Chondrishthyes
Cartilaginous fish (sharks, rays)
Osteichthyens
Bony fish (normal fish)
Anadromous
Fish that swim up river to spawn
Elsmobrachs
Part of chondryctides
3 groups:
Galea
Squeala
Batoidea
Squales
Shark like forms that all lack anal fins
Are mostly deep sea fishes such as the angel shark