introduction Flashcards

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3 major groups of living fish

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cyclostomes, chrondichthyes, Osteichthyes

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Cyclostomes

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Jawless fish
Myxini (hagfishes) ~ 70 species
NO: vertebrae, paired fins,
jaws, or scales
Petromyzontida (lampreys) ~ 38 spp
have simple vertebrae
no jaws, paired fins, scales

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Chondrichthyes

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(cartilaginous fishes) ~ 1000 spp
* Elasmobranchii
– Sharks (403)
– Skates & rays (534)
* Holocephali (chimaeras) (33)
– OWN the top predator niche

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Osteichthyes

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(bony fishes) ~ 34,000 + spp
* Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes) (8)
* Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) (34,000 +)

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where are fish found

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41% freshwater – why so many?
* 1% diadromous
* 58% saltwater
– 44% in shallow water near continents
– 1% lighted open ocean (epipelagic)
– 5% unlighted open ocean (deepwater pelagic)
– 7% ocean bottom (deepwater benthic)
* Highest diversity in the tropics

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conservation

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Note that ~ 86% of all fish species are found
on or near continents
– Potential for human impacts
* Freshwater fishes: 20-35% extinct or declining
– 35% of 1000 North American species
* Marine fishes: ~ 5% extinct or declining (est)
– most exploited species overfished
– ecological/economic extinction

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Systematics

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Basis of any taxonomic discipline
* Classification system of hierarchically
arranged names
– Reflects current evolutionary hypotheses about
relationships among taxa
– Can (and do) change as we learn more
* Natural classification
– Based on evolutionary relationships
– Allows predictions based on group membership
* Example: Family Centrarchidae

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taxonomy

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Describing, naming, arranging into system of
classification, devising ID keys

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Systematics

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Focuses on determining relationships among
species or higher taxa

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Approaches to classification

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Cladistics (phylogenetic systematics)
– Basis of modern systematics (Hennig, 1950)
– Two types of characters:
* apomorphies (derived)
* plesiomorphies (ancestral)
– synapomorphies – shared derived characters
– autapomorphies – define single taxa

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Common body forms

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Elongate, moderate, deep, rounded, compressed slightly, compressed strongly, depressed deeply

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Morphology: caudal fin types

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A. heterocercal – vertebral column extends into
upper lobe (sharks, sturgeon)
B. protocercal – undifferentiated (lampreys, eels)
C. homocercal – most bony fishes
– Forked, rounded, truncate, lunate, etc.
D. diphycercal – lungfish, coelocanth

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Inferring ecology from morphology

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  • rover-predator
  • lie-in-wait (fast-start) predator
  • surface-oriented fish
  • bottom rover
  • bottom clinger
  • deep-bodied fish
  • eel-like fish
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Fish locomotion: using fins

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  • oscillation of pectoral fins
    – wrasses, surfperch, most deep-bodied fishes
    at times
  • oscillation of median fins (eg, dorsal
    and anal)
    – ocean sunfish, porcupinefish
  • undulation of pectoral fins
    – skates and rays
  • undulation of dorsal or anal fins
    – bowfin, knifefishes
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mouth

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inferior, subterminal, terminal, supraterminal, superior

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scale types

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placoid – toothlike, with enamel
& dentine layers
– Chondrichthyes
– rough surface improves
hydrodynamics
– origin of chondrichthyan (& all
vertebrate) teeth
* cosmoid – bone & cosmine
– lungfishes & coelocanths
– from fusion of placoid scales
– highly modified in recent
lungfishes
ganoid – bone & ganoine
– platelike, non-overlapping
– Articulate with ball-and-socket
joint
– Found in primitive
actinopterygians (bowfin,
gars, paddlefish, sturgeons)
cycloid
– Trout, minnows, herring
– smooth margin
* ctenoid
– spiny-finned teleosts
– toothed margin improves
hydrodynamics

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conodonts

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Class Conodonta
* late-Cambrian to late
Triassic
– earlier “protoconodonts”
not chordates
* abundant tooth-like
fossils
– ‘conodont elements’
– biostratigraphy
* soft body not found
until 1980s

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Ostracoderms

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= “shell-skinned”
* not a clade! Paraphyletic …
* late Cambrian to late Devonian
* bony shield over head/thorax - endodermal bone
* small (to ~ 30cm)
* many with hypocercal tail
– reverse heterocercal
* Four distinct superclasses
– Pteraspidomorphi
– Anaspidomorphi
– Theolodonti
– Osteostracomorphi
* likely sister taxon to jawed vertebrates
* generally benthic, poor swimmers
* likely deposit feeders, but w/ muscular feeding pump
* a few deep-bodied forms (C) used water column

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Types of jaw suspension

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  • Autostylic – mandible not
    supported by hyoid arch
    – lungfishes, tetrapods,
    (holocephalans)
  • Amphistylic – mandible
    partly supported by hyoid
    arch
    – primitive sharks
  • Hyostylic – mandible mainly
    supported by hyoid arch
  • most chondrichthians
    and all actinopterygians
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Placoderms

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  • presumed most primitive jawed fishes
  • possible ancestor to chondrichthyans
  • BUT, appear later in fossil record than
    Acanthodians
  • late Silurian – early Carboniferous
    – ecological replacement by Chondrichthyes?
    “plate-skinned”
  • ornamented, bony plates over anterior body
  • diverse and successful!
    – 25-30 families
    – 200 genera
  • d/v compressed
    – benthic
  • some very large
    – Dunkleosteus to 6m
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Acanthodians

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Acanthodians – “spiny sharks”
* oldest jawed vertebrates – before Placoderms
– late Ordovician to early Permian
* NOT closely related to sharks
* now considered the earliest bony fishes
* share with bony fishes:
– operculum
– branchiostegal rays
– three otoliths
* stout median and paired spines
* multiple paired fins in some (fin-fold theory?)
* mostly small (20cm to 2.5m)
* streamlined – water column feeders
* diverse: 9 families, ~ 60 genera

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SC Holocephali

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  • upper jaw fused to cranium
    – autostylic suspension
    – (holostylic – a version of
    autostylic)
  • teeth as continual growing
    plates
    – anterior bladelike, rear
    crushing
  • operculum covers 4 gill slits
  • separate anal & urogenital
    openings
  • tenaculae
  • mostly scaleless
  • long pointed tail
  • oviparous, few eggs, long development
  • adult size 60-200 cm
  • benthic, moderate depths (80-2600m)
  • main food = hard-shelled inverts
  • swimming
    – body undulations
    – pectoral fin flapping
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Osteichthyes

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  • appeared 425 mya during the Silurian
  • probably evolved initially in freshwater
  • dominant by 380 mya (mid-Devonian)
  • Ostracoderms had just died out
  • Acanthodians, placoderms, elasmobranchs
    were radiating at the same time
    – so origins of bony fishes unclear
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coelacanth

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  • large size (to 2m L)
  • lobed fins (which?)
  • diphycercal tail
  • scales – thick, bony, ± cosmoid
  • hollow spines (coel – acanth)
  • gular plate
  • occipital joint
  • autostylic jaw suspension
  • fat-filled swim bladder
  • spiral valve intestine
  • osmoregulation – concentrate urea
  • nocturnal
  • moderately deep
    – 100-400m
  • congregate in caves
    in daytime
    – possible limiting
    factor
  • feed drifting, in
    ‘head-down’ position
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dip-noan
double breather
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Polypteriformes
shared characteristics * gular plates * spiracles * autostyly * ganoid scales * external gills when young * modified heterocercal tail * spiral valve intestine autapomorphies * fin structure – paired – median * respiration – exhale thru spiracles – recoil aspiration * only 4 gill arches
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SC Chondrostei, Order Acipenseriformes
Sturgeons and paddlefishes
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Acipenseriformes-characteristics
* cartilaginous skeleton * heterocercal tail * reduced squamation * jaw suspension similar to sharks * no branchiostegal rays * electrosensory organs * single dorsal fin far back on body * large and long-lived – to 118 y (Beluga) * 4 barbels * 5 rows of bony scutes
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Order Lepisosteiformes
* backwater areas of lakes & rivers—low O2 – facultative air breathers * Characteristics – elongate cylindrical bodies – ganoid scales – median fins set far back ... – swimbladder/lung – spiral valve intestine – opisthocoelous vertebrae – ossified skeleton – tail moderately heterocercal
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Teleost diversity
* 96% of all fishes, most fisheries * Diversity of habitats/niches, esp vs – chondrichthyans – relict bony fishes * Four major groups (subdivisions) of teleosts: – Elopomorpha (true eels, tarpons) – Osteoglossomorpha (mooneyes, bonytongues, etc) – Otocephala (clupeids, minnows, catfishes) – Euteleostei (all the rest!)
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Teleosts: defining characteristics
* uroneural bones support the fully homocercal tail * mobile maxilla & premaxilla, allowing upper jaw protrusion * cycloid / ctenoid scales * operculum with 4 bones
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Teleosts: trends in evolution
* lighter weight bone and scales * more efficient 2-pump respiratory system * gas bladder more specialized as hydrostatic organ (rather than lung) * separation of biting and chewing function of jaw, using pharyngeal teeth to chew * fully homocercal tail * location of paired fins shifts, particularly in the more advanced teleosts
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Superorder Ostariophysi
* 68% of all freshwater fish species * Defining characters: – Weberian apparatus * lacking in milkfishes (most primitive order) – alarm substance (shreckstoff) & alarm response
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Percomorph fishes - Characters
* pelvic fins far forward, or lost * pectoral fins high on body * fin spines (sometimes reduced) * very flexible skull and jaw * upper & lower pharyngeal teeth * physoclistous swimbladder, or none * pelvic fins usually: 1 spine, 5 rays * spine usually w/ 24 vertebrae * small spines on head and operculum (usually) * well-developed eyes * ctenoid scales (usually)
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Order Perciformes
* largest order of vertebrates, 19 suborders, 160 families, ~13,000 spp * nearly half of all fishes! * most occupy richest habitats: – shallow, lighted surface waters of oceans & lakes – dominant spp of coral reefs Characters (percimorph plus) * 2 dorsal fins: 1 spinous, 1 soft-rayed, often joined; never an adipose fin * absence of certain bones, including epipleurals
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Devonian
age of fish 408 mya contains hagfishes, lampreys, conodonts, ostracoderms, Placoderms, Elasmobranches, Holocephali, Acanthodians, Actinopterygians, Sarcopterygians. during Paleozoic era