lab practicum 3 Flashcards
Lab 16 Protochordata and Agnatha (jawless fish): What are the characteristics of chordates?
- Notochord –Flexible internal rod for support
- Dorsal Hallow Nerve Cord –above notochord
- Pharyngeal Gill Slits –posterior to mouth
- filter feeding
- modified respiration - Post anal tail - locomotion
- endostyle or thyroid gland
Lab 16 Protochordata and Agnatha (jawless fish): what are the autapomorphies of Subphylum Urochordata?
- urochordate body design
- larval stage
Lab 16 Protochordata and Agnatha (jawless fish): what is the autapomorphy for Subphylum Cephalochordata?
- unique wheel like organ for unique filtering
Lab 16 Protochordata and Agnatha (jawless fish): What are the defining features of Subphylum Vertebrata?
- vertebrae
- developed brain
- neural crest cells
Subphylum Urochordata: what organism is used to represent this Subphylum?
- tunicate
Subphylum Urochordata: how does this organism feed?
- adult urochordates have a soft like back body with two siphon openings where water goes in, food is filtered inside the body
Subphylum Cephalochordata: what organisms represents this Subphylum?
- amphioxus & lancelets
Subphylum Vertebrata: what organism represents this Subphylum?
- lamprey
Lab 17 Class Chondrichthyes: what is the function of the spiracles?
- vestigial first gill slit behind eye
- oxygenate blood directly to eye and
brain through separate blood vessels - not all sharks
Lab 17 Class Chondrichthyes: how many gill slits are there?
- five
Lab 17 Class Chondrichthyes: was your shark a male or female? How do you know?
- male shark
- only male sharks have claspers, fins that are on the ventral/ anterior side just before the end of the tail
Lab 17 Class Chondrichthyes: what subphylum, superclass and class are sharks, rays, and chimaeras?
- subphylum: vertebrata
-superclass: gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) - class chondrichthyes
Lab 17 Class Chondrichthyes: list some characteristics about class Chondrichthyes?
- 1200 living species, most marine
- sharks and rays
- cartilaginous skeleton
- jaws
- well developed sense organs
- Lateral line system ( line slightly above the middle of the shark)
- Vibration
Lab 17 Class Chondrichthyes: what is the ampullae of Lorenzini?
- changes in water temperature
- electric fields
Lab 17 Class Chondrichthyes: what are spiracles and the function?
- vestigial first gill slit behind eye
- function: oxygenate blood directly to eye and brain through separate blood vessels
- note: not all sharks
Lab 17 Class Chondrichthyes: for rays, where are the spiracles and gills?
- gills on ventral side
- spiracles on dorsal side
- function: actively pumps water over gills
- respiratory water enters so it doesn’t
get clogged on underside.
- respiratory water enters so it doesn’t
Lab 18 Class Osteichthyes: what subphylum and super class is class Osteichthyes?
- subphylum Vertebrata
- superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
Lab 18 Class Osteichthyes: what species fall into this class and 2 characteristics?
- lungfishes
- coelacanthanths
- ray finned fishes
- 2 characteristics
1. jaws
2. lungs
Lab 18 Class Osteichthyes: general characteristics/information about class Osteichthyes?
- largest class of vertebrates
- 28,000 species
- bony skeleton (bony fish)
- scales
- swim bladders
- jaws
- lungs
- operculum and gills