fish and fishing vocab

Question 1

vertebral column

Answer 1

the skeleton which forms the support structure inside the fish

Question 2

neural crest

Answer 2

temporary group of cells unique to vertebrates that arise from the embryonic ectoderm cell layer

Question 3

fin

Answer 3

flattened appendage on various parts of the body of many aquatic vertebrates and some invertebrates including fish and cetaceans

Question 4

scale

Answer 4

vary enormously in size, shape, structure, and extent, ranging from strong and rigid armour plates in fishes

Question 5

operculum

Answer 5

series of bones found in bony fish that serves as a facial support structure and a protective covering for the gills it is also used for respiration and feeding.

Question 6

atrium

Answer 6

A chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it by muscular contraction into a ventricle

Question 7

ventricle

Answer 7

A chamber of the heart that receives blood from one or more atria and pumps it by muscular contraction into the arteries

Question 8

nephron

Answer 8

functional unit of the kidney

Question 9

lateral line

Answer 9

system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water

Question 10

spawning

Answer 10

external method of reproduction

Question 11

swim bladder

Answer 11

internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish

Question 12

jawless fish

Answer 12

Also called agnathan.

Question 13

cartilaginous fish

Answer 13

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

Question 14

bony fish

Answer 14

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

Question 15

bowfin/dogfish

Answer 15

basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei

Question 16

brown bullhead

Answer 16

fish of the Ictaluridae family that is widely distributed in North America

Question 17

brown trout

Answer 17

a speckled European trout

Question 18

burbot/Eelpout

Answer 18

any of various elongate tapered marine fishes

Question 19

channel catfish

Answer 19

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

Question 20

common carp

Answer 20

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

Question 21

crappie

Answer 21

a North American freshwater fish of the sunfish family, the male of which builds a nest and guards the eggs and young.

Question 22

flathead catfish

Answer 22

a large species of North American freshwater catfish

Question 23

lake sturgeon

Answer 23

a North American temperate freshwater fish

Question 24

lake trout

Answer 24

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

Question 25

large mouth bass

Answer 25

a North American freshwater fish of the sunfish family. It is a popular sporting and food fish

Question 26

long nose gar

Answer 26

primitive ray-finned fish of the gar family

Question 27

muskellunge

Answer 27

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

Question 28

northern pike

Answer 28

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

Question 29

rainbow trout

Answer 29

a large trout native to the Pacific seaboard of North America

Question 30

sauger

Answer 30

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

Question 31

sheepshead

Answer 31

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

Question 32

small mouth bass

Answer 32

North American freshwater fish of the sunfish family. It is a popular sporting and food fish

Question 33

smelt

Answer 33

They are also known as freshwater smelts or typical smelts to distinguish them from the related Argentinidae

Question 34

sunfish

Answer 34

a large deep-bodied marine fish of warm seas, with tall dorsal and anal fins near the rear of the body and a very short tail

Question 35

walleye

Answer 35

a North American pikeperch with large, opaque silvery eyes. It is a commercially valuable food fish and a popular sporting fish

Question 36

white sucker

Answer 36

a common and widespread edible sucker

Question 37

yellow bullhead

Answer 37

species of bullhead catfish that is a ray-finned fish that lacks scales.

Question 38

yellow perch

Answer 38

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