Lab 2: Life In the Water Part 1 Flashcards
Spiny dogfish scientific name
Squalus acanthias
Size of dogfish shark
Adult males reach one meter, females slightly larger
Aquatic vertebrates are characterized by having what type of body shape that allows them to slide easily through water with reduced resistance
Streamlined or fusiform shape
Main areas of external body of shark
Head with branchial region
Trunk extending to cloacal aperture
Tail (caudal to cloaca)
Main organ of locomotion in sharks that provide the propulsive thrust for swimming
Caudal fin
Asymmetrical-most of the fin lies below the vertebral column. Making the lower lobe larger than the upper lobe.
Shark caudal fins types are known as ……
Heterocercal - lower larger lobe
Placoid scales
What are they homologous to
Each scale consists of a basal plate embedded into the dermis of the skin and a sharp point protruding from the skin and pointing caudally, hence the skin feels roughy when you move your hand over it from tail to head.
Homologous to teeth
Sharks colouring
Grey colour dorsally and lighter centrally. This is known as countershading.
Helps organism be less visible when viewed from below or above
Other fins on shark
Anterior dorsal fin
Posterior dorsal fin
Why are they called spiny dogfish sharks?
Each of the dorsal fins bears a spine on the anterior margin
Life span of dogfish and how can you tell
25-30 years
Concentric rings laid down during growth of hard parts of scales
Pectoral fin function
Pelvic fin functions
Steering
Males-stuff, spined copulateit steuxures called claspers. These fins are supported by cartilaginous fin rays called ceratotrichia
Sharks have what type of eye
Unique eyelids of sharks
Well developed lateral eyes
Immovable eyelids
Lateral at each corner of the mouth of sharks is a ________ which contains a _______ supported internally by a thin rod of ______
Labial pouch
Labial fold
Cartilage
Teeth of dogfish sharks are modified…..
Teeth arrangement and function
Placoid scales, arranged in rows
First two are ones in use at any one time. The teeth are extremely sharp and replaced when worn by teeth from the back rows. Teeth are used for grasping and tearing prey, not chewing.
External nostrils of dogfish sharks are called ______. They are open on the ______ surface of the snout.
Nares
Ventral
How does water enter and exit the nares of dogfish sharks
A flap of skin separates the opening into a medial excurrent and a lateral incurrent aperatue. Water flows into the incurrent aperature to the olfactory organ within, then out the excurrent aperture.
The five external openings anterior to the pectoral fin are the ______
How are they separated
External hill slots
Strips of tissue unlike bony fish that have a common opening of the gills by an operculum
Spiracle
Caudal to the eye is a reduced gill slit
Spiracle valve is a flap of tissue that can cover this opening.
Water can enter the spiralled when the mouth is occupied with prey
A reduced gill called the ______is present on the wall of the spiracular valve
Pseudobranch
Patches of different pores on the dorsal and ventral head region belong to the _______ or ______
If you press on the skin of the head, what happens?
Ampullae
Lorenzini
Jelly-like fluid will exude from the press
The ampullae are ________ that can detect the small electric field around living organism and can sense the presence of prey even when it is not visible.
Sensory structures
The ampullae are derived from what sensory system and what does it do
Lateral line
Detects low frequency vibrations and imparts a sense of “distant touch” to fishes
The main canal of the lateral line system is located where?
On the lateral body surface and it’s position is indicated by a thin horizontal stripe along the side of the body
Cloaca of shark
-location and function
Centrally and recovers the products of the digestive system, urinary and reproductive systems.
Within the cloaca, a pointed structure, the ______ is visible
In males it is called the
In females it is called the
Papilla
Urogenital papilla because it receives ducts from both the urinary and reproductive systems and Carrie’s both urine and sperm
Urinary papilla because it only receives urine.
Substances are discharged from the small pore at the tip of the papilla
The anus, the opening of the digestive system into the cloaca, enters the cloaca _______ to the papilla
Cranial
A pair of _______ are located on the lateral edge of the cloaca in both sexes. These pores are though to be an outlet for excess coelomic fluid
Abdominal pores
There are two Basic types of bone found in the vertebrate skeleton:
Dermal bone
Endochondral bone
Endochondral bone and dermal bone starts
Starts out as cartilage in the embryo. The cartilage provides an exact blueprint to gradually be replaced by bone.
Dermal bone forms dermis of the skin and is superficial. Dermal bone never begins as cartilage, instead, bone cells accumulate directly in the dermis. (Bony scales of fish, turtles)
The _____skeleton is lacking in the shark. The endoskeleton is completely cartilaginous and is never converted to bone as it is in other vertebrates
Dermal
The endoskeleton is divided into the _____ and _____ skeletons
Visceral (inner tube)
-branchial or hill arches and their derivatives in aquatic vertebrates. Middle ear bones, tongue supports and larynx/trachea in lab animals.
Somatic (outer tube)
-divided into
axial skeleton
-skull, vertebral column, ribs, sternum
And
appendicular skeleton
-pectoral
-pelvic
-associated limbs
Why is the skull or Squalus not typical of most fish?
It is cartilaginous and does not illustrate the ancestral condition of a heavy covering of dermal bone.
What are the dermal bones in Amia calva (bowfin fish)
Dermal head skeleton
Chondricranium surrounding the brain
Visceral skeleton
Dermal bones
These become United and in distinct in a number of animals
Basic elements of the chondrocranium (part of the endoskeleton)
Basal plate and ethmoid plate
Ethmoid plate extends between the nasal sac
The optic capsule surround each inter ear and a nasal capsule surrounds each nasal sac
The chondrocranium is part of which skeleton system
Endoskeleton
Axial division of the somatic skeleton
Rostrum
Hollow trough at the anterior end of the chondrocranium. The cavity within it is the precerebral cavity that is filled with a gelatinous substance
Series of small foramina (holes) in the supraoribtal crest are the __________ through which branches of the superficial __________ nerves pass
Superficial ophthalmic foramina
Ophthalmic
Foramen magnum
Rounded bulbs on either side of it are what?
Large hole in the occipital region of the chondrocranium through which the spinal cord passes
Occipital condyles that articulate with the first trunk vertebra
Cranial cavity
The cavity in which the brain lies in the chondrocranium
The wide flats floor between the optic capsules at the posterior end of the chondrocranium is the _____
Basal plate
Optic foramen
Opening for the passage of cranial nerves in the region of the orbit
Large opening in the anterior ventral wall - passage of the optic nerve from the retina on its way to the brain.