Fish Flashcards

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1
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spine

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Vertebral Column

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Neural crest cells are a temporary group of cells unique to vertebrates that arise from the embryonic ectoderm cell layer, and in turn give rise to a diverse cell lineage—including melanocytes, craniofacial cartilage and bone, smooth muscle, peripheral and enteric neurons and glia

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Neural crest

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3
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flippy flappers

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Fin

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4
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never weighing myself again

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Scale

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5
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technical term for gill cover

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Operculum

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6
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each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles. The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the veins of the body; the left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary vein.

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Atrium

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7
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a hollow part or cavity in an organ, in particular.
each of the two main chambers of the heart, left and right.
each of the four connected fluid-filled cavities in the center of the brain.

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Ventricle

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8
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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.

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Nephron

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9
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a visible line along the side of a fish consisting of a series of sense organs that detect pressure and vibration.

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Lateral line

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10
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release or deposit eggs

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Spawning

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a gas-filled sac present in the body of many bony fishes, used to maintain and control buoyancy.

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Swim bladder

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12
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no jaws

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Jawless fish

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13
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a fish of a class distinguished by having a skeleton of cartilage rather than bone, including the sharks, rays, and chimeras

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Cartilaginous fish

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a fish of a large class distinguished by a skeleton of bone, and comprising the majority of modern fishes.

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Bony Fish

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15
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bony fishes

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Dogfish

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16
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an American freshwater catfish with four pairs of barbels around the mouth

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Brown Bullhead

17
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the common trout of Europe, especially one of a nonmigratory race with dark spotted skin, that occurs in small rivers and pools

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Brown Trout

18
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also known as bubbot, mariah, freshwater ling, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, freshwater cusk, and eelpout. The species is closely related to the marine common ling and the cusk

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Burbot/Eelpout

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a common North American freshwater catfish that has a pale blue to olive back with dark spots

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Channel Catfish

20
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a deep-bodied freshwater fish, typically with barbels around the mouth

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Common Carp

21
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You literally catch these all the time dumbass

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Crappie

22
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also called by several names including mudcat, or shovelhead cat, is a large species of North American freshwater catfish.

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Flathead Catfish

23
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The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), also called rock sturgeon, is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon

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Lake Sturgeon

24
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any of a number of fishes of the salmon family that live in large lakes and are highly prized as a game fish and as food.

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Lake Trout

25
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Caught these a few times before too dumbass

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Largemouth Bass

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The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) is a primitive ray-finned fish of the gar family. It is also known as the needlenose gar. L. osseus is found along the east coast of North and Central America in freshwater lakes and as far west as Kansas and Texas and southern New Mexico

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Long-nose Gar

27
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a large pike that occurs only in the Great Lakes region

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Muskellunge

28
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a long-bodied predatory freshwater fish with a pointed snout and large teeth, of both North America and Eurasia.

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Northern Pike

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a large trout native to the Pacific seaboard of North America. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, both as a farmed food fish and as a sporting fish

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Rainbow Trout

30
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a slender North American pikeperch with silver eyes, which is active at twilight and at night

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Sauger

31
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any of a number of boldly marked edible game fishes that live in warm American waters

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Sheepshead

32
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similar to the largemouth

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Smallmouth Bass

33
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Smelts are a family of small fish, the Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They are also known as freshwater smelts or typical smelts to distinguish them from the related Argentinidae, Bathylagidae, and Retropinnidae. … Some sportsmen also ice fish for smelt

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smelt

34
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Sunnies!

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Sunfish

35
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fish

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Walleye

36
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a common and widespread edible sucker (Catostomus commersoni) of the U.S. and Canada

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White Sucker

37
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The yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis) is a species of bullhead catfish that is a ray-finned fish that lacks scales.

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Yellow Bullhead

38
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an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins

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Yellow Perch