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