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What are the 4 shared characteristics of chordates?

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notochord, pharyngeal slits, dorsal hollow nerve chord, and post anal tail

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what do amphibians, fish, and reptiles have in common?

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ectotherms

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What characteristics do sharks have in common?

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filter feeders, placoid scales, cartilaginous skeleton

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what characteristics do skates and rays have in common?

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similar body shape, fused fins, cartilaginous skeleton

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how are skates and rays different?

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skates have barbs at the end of their tail and rays have stinging spikes that produce a voltage up to 200V

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what is the adipose fin and where is it located?

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it is a fat filled fin used for finding a mate. It is located on the dorsal side between he dorsal fin and the caudal fin

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what kind of fish has an adipose fin?

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bony fish

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what is an inferior feeder?

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bottom feeder

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what is a superior feeder?

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Eats prey above it

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what is a subterminal feeder?

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eats prey just above the bottom

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what is a terminal feeder?

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eats prey in front of it

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what are the three kinds of bony fish scales?

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ganoid, cycloid, ctenoid

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Order ceratodontiformes includes……

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Lungfish

ex. South American Lungfish

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order lepidosireniformes includes……

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Lungfish

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characteristics of order coelacanthiformes

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fat-filled swim bladder, inter-cranial joint

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order osteoglossiformes includes…….

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moneys and goldeyes

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What are some main characteristics of order Osteoglossiformes?

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the goldeyes have gold eyes and the mooneyes have silver eyes. they have cycloid scales and about 60 fin rays in the caudal fin

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Order Anguilliformes includes…….

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eels

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Characteristics of order Anguilliformes

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lack pectoral fins, continuous anal and dorsal fin, cycloid scales are absent or embedded, not very good at swimming

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order Clupieformes includes….

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herring, shad, and anchovies

ex. pacific herring, American shad, Northern Anchovie

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Characteristics of order Clupieformes

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soft fins, pelvic fin is below the dorsal fin, swim bladder is connected to the ear, thin body, schooling fish

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22
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Weberian apparatus

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swimbladder is connected tot he skull to enhance hearing

23
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order Cypriniformes includes…..

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Suckers, carps, minnows, goldfish

ex. white sucker, brassy minnow

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Characteristics of order Cypriniformes

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contractile mouth, pharyngeal teeth, feed near the bottom

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Order Siluriformes includes…..

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catfish

ex. black bullhead and brown bullhead

26
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characteristics of order Siluriformes

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barbels and whiskers, flatter head, lack inter muscular fins

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order Esociformes includes……

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pikes and mud minnows

28
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Characteristics of order Esociformes

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sharp teeth, swim bladder, and cycloid scales

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order Salmoniformes includes…..

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smelts, trout, salmon

ex. surf smelt, rainbow trout, sockeye salmon

30
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Characteristics of order Salmoniformes

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marine and freshwater, forked caudal fin, dorsal fin far on back

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order Gadiformes includes…..

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cod

ex. Pacific tomcod

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Characteristics of order Gadiformes

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physoclistous swim bladder, pelvic fins below or in-front of pectoral fins

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order Percopsiformes includes…….

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perch

ex. trout perch

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Characteristics of order Percopsiformes

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small, spiny rays, adipose fin

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order Batrachoidiformes includes…….

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toadfish

ex. Plainfin Midshipman

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Characteristics of order Batrachoidiformes

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luminescent, 2 chambered swimbladder

37
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what is the use of a 2-chambered swimbladder? and how does it work?

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used to attract a mate, air moves between bladders and creates a loud vibration

38
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order Lophiiformes includes….

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anglerfish

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Characteristics of order Lophiiformes

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male is a “bag of gonads” attached to female and is technically parasitic

40
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order Beloniformes includes….

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flying fish

ex. California flying fish

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Characteristics of order Beloniformes

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beats caudal fin back and forth to fly, caudal fin shaped like wings

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Order Cyprinodontiformes includes……

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Devils hole pupfish and mosquito fish

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Characteristics of order cyprinodontiformes

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freshwater, live-bearers, small

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order Gasterosteiformes includes……

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seahorses, pipefish, tubesnout, stickleback

45
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Characteristics of order Gasterosteiformes

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bony plated scales, males have egg pouches, small tail, spines

46
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order Scorpaeniformes includes…….

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rockfish, sculpin, greenlings, lingcod, snailfish

47
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Characteristics of order Scorpaeniformes

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bottom oriented, large round pectoral fins, large head, rounded caudal fins, many spines and bony plates, physcoclistous swimbladder

48
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order Perciformes includes….

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walleye, pumpkinseed and yellow perch

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Characteristics of order Perciformes

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predators, fin spines absent, double dorsal fins, pelvic fins thoracic or jugular or absent, premaxilla is the only bone on upper jaw, physoclistous swimbladder

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order Pleuronectiformes includes….

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starry flounder and halibut

51
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Characteristic of order Pleuronectiformes

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Some are not bilaterally symmetrical, stay near bottom, big, no swimbladder, halibut have a small gut cavity

52
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order Tetradontiformes includes….

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puffers and small box fishes

ex. ocean sunfish

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Characteristics of Tetradontiformes

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slow moving, bones fused to jaw, leathery skin, watery muscle, some ar without a swimbladder, the sunfish has no caudal fin and female can produce 300million eggs

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