fish Flashcards
vertebrate
animal of large group with a back bone or spinal column
vertebral column
spine: back bone
neural crest
fourth germ layer of the vertebral column
closed circulatory system
blood is closed at all times inside of blood vessels, pumped by heart and doesnt normally fill body cavities
cycloid scaled
salmon and carp it is thin shows concentric lines of grownth
placoid scales
sharks and rays also called dermal denticals, structuarally homologous with vertebrete teeth
ganoid scales
sturgeons and gars contains an inner layer of bone
gills
paired resperatory organ of fish, oxygen is extracted from water that flows over them
lateral line
system of sense organs , detects movement and vibration
spawining
multiple eggs being fertalized, spawn, offspring
jawless fish
any taxonomic group (agnatha) containing vertabrates without jaws.
cartilaginous fish
having a skeleton made of cartalidge rather than bone ex: rays shark, chemeras.
bony fish
a skeleton of bone not cartalidge (most fish)
lobe-finned fish
largely extinct group having fleshy lobed fins probable ancestors of amphibians