Fish and Fishing Vocabulary Flashcards
Vertebral Column
also known as the backbone or spine, is part of the axial skeleton. The vertebral column is the defining characteristic of a vertebrate
Neural crest
cells are a temporary group of cells unique to vertebrates that arise from the embryonic ectoderm cell layer
Fin
fish swimming parts
Scale
vary enormously in size, shape, structure, and extent, ranging from strong and rigid armour plates in fishes such as shrimpfishes and boxfishes, to microscopic or absent in fishes such as eels and anglerfishes.
Operculum
a structure that closes or covers an aperture, in particular.
Atrium
heart has one atrium and one ventricle
Ventricle
a hollow part or cavity in an organ, in particular.
Nephron
is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney.
Lateral line
The lateral line is a system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, mainly fish, used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water.
Spawning
release or deposit eggs.
Swim bladder
The swim bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of a fish to control its buoyancy, and thus to stay at the current water depth without having to waste energy in swimming
Jawless fish
Agnatha is a superclass of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, consisting of both present and extinct species. The group excludes all vertebrates with jaws, known as gnathostomes
Cartilaginous fish
Chondrichthyes is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes: they are jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone
Bony fish
popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage
Devonian Period
The oldest known vascular plants in the Northern Hemisphere are from the Devonian Period
Bowfin/Dogfish
Bowfin are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, cypress trout and choupique.
Brown Bullhead
The brown bullhead is a fish of the Ictaluridae family 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
is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally.
Burbot/Eelpout
The burbot or bubbot is the only gadiform freshwater fish. Also known as mariah, freshwater ling, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod and eelpout, the burbot is closely related to the marine common ling and the cusk
Channel Catfish
Channel catfish is North America’s most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska,and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a “channel cat”
Common Carp
The common carp is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.
Crappie
The crappies are a genus, Pomoxis, of North American freshwater fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae. Both species in this genus are popular game fish.
Flathead Catfish
The flathead catfish, also called the mudcat, flatty, or shovelhead cat, is a large species of North American freshwater catfish. It is the only species of the genus Pylodictis.
Lake Sturgeon
The lake sturgeon, also called rock sturgeon, is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon.
Lake Trout
Lake trout is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, lake char, touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean
Largemouth Bass
The largemouth bass is a freshwater gamefish in the sunfish family, a species of black bass native to North America
Long-nose Gar
The longnose gar is a primitive ray-finned fish of the gar family. It is also known as the needlenose gar
Muskellunge
The muskellunge, also known as muskelunge, muscallonge, milliganong, or maskinonge, is a species of large, relatively uncommon freshwater fish native to North America. The muskellunge is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae
Northern Pike
The northern pike, known simply as a pike in Britain, Ireland, most of Canada, and most parts of the United States, is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox. They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere.
Rainbow Trout
The rainbow trout is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America
Sauger
The sauger is a freshwater perciform fish of the family Percidae which resembles its close relative the walleye. They are members of the largest vertebrate order, Perciformes. They are the most migratory percid species in North America
Sheepshead
Sheepshead or Sheephead is a trick-taking card game related to the Skat family of games. It is the Americanized version of a card game that originated in Central Europe in the late 18th century under the German name Schafkopf.
Smallmouth Bass
that lives in clear rivers and lakes and is bronze green above and lighter below -
Smelt
Smelts are a family of small fish, 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
Sunfish
A nest-builder that tends to be more solitary than other members of the sunfish family
Walleye
Walleye 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 pikeperch.
White Sucker
The white sucker is a freshwater Cypriniform fish inhabiting the upper Midwest and Northeast in North America, but is also found as far south as Georgia and New Mexico in the south and west.
Yellow Bullhead
The yellow bullhead is a species of bullhead catfish that is a ray-finned fish that lacks scales
Yellow Perch
The yellow perch, commonly referred to as perch, is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America. The yellow perch was described in 1814 by Samuel Latham Mitchill from New York
