test 2 Flashcards
Three groups of marine fish and there representative
- Agnatha- jawless fish ( lampreys and hagfishes)
- Chondrichthyes
- >holocephali (ratfish)
- >Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) - Osteichyes- bony fish.
- > Dipnoi (Lungfish)
- > Crossoptergii
- > Actinopterygii ( ray fineed fish)
- jawless fish
- long body
Agnatha
- hagfish and lamprey
protection with mucas clouds, can clean themselves by tying them in a knot
** only vert with no osmotic system
Hagfish (slime eel)
Mobile eyes
freshwater reproduction site
* oral disk allows them to attach to host
lamprey
cartilaginous fish with movable jaws and placoid scales, well developed teeth
Chondrichthyes
- sharks
- rays
- ratfishes
fleshy tail, riple lateral fines and oviparity
skates
spiny tail, flap lateral fins and viviparity
rays
fused upper jaw, scaless
ratfish
bony skeleton, ctenoid scales and swim bladder
Osteichthyes
feet like features that resemble early amphibian
coelacanths
appeared before the time of the dinosaurs,and can move rapidly
Neoperygii
primarily catilaginous, jaw line smilar to sharks
chondrodtei
ctene like sheets used by gars or sturgens
gonoid
flat scales used by bony fish
cycloid
comb/ mountain like scales used by perch
ctenoid
spikes like sandpaper- sharks
placoid
have anterior flipper used for swimming
posterior flipper can move forward
ear flap
long neck
sea lion
anterior flipper-not backwarf
posterior flipper can not moves- used for swimming
no ear flap
short neck
seal
karatin like tooth
used by toothless whales
baleen
large jellyfish
megaplankton
krill
macroplankton
zooplankton, larvae
mesoplankton
most phytoplankton
microplankton
cyanophytes, cilliates
nanoplanton
bacteria
picoplankton
viruses
femtoplankton
diatoms, dino, cyano
phytoplankton (microplankton)
protozoans, crustaceans, non crustaceans, meroplankton
zooplanton (mesoplantion)
COPEPODS ARE A MAJOR ZOOPLANKTON
larval stages of some animals
meroplankton
spend the entire life in water column as plankton
holplankton
spend a part of the life cycle as plankton
meroplankton
Types of estuaries
- costal plain
- tectonic
3 fojord - bar built
basic principles of estuaries
- positive
- negative
- salt wedge
- well mixed
- partially mixed
what are the importance of coral reefs?
largest animal made ecosystem and have the second highest diversity on earth
why are coral reefs so complex?
a. (1) Physical complexity- 3D structure provides habitats
b. (2) Environmental setting-Tropical, stable, high light
c. (3) Biological interactions -Intimate, mutually-beneficial associations among species (symbioses)
list the reef builders
- calcareous algae
- mollusks
- tube worms
- stony corals
- sponges
why is coral reef limited to shallow tropics?
- temperature
- light
- air exposure
- salinity
- sedimentation
- water motion
four types of reefs
- patch
- fringing
- barrier
- atoll