Test 3 Flashcards
Has paired fins ( pelvic and pectoral) and scales
Jawed Fishes
Two groups of jawed fishes
Cartilaginous and bony fishes
Gill covers of Bony fish
Operculum
Have moveable fins
Bony Fish
4 examples of cartilaginous fish
Sharks, rays, Skate and Chimaeras
What kind of scales do sharks have?
Placoid scales
What kind of tails do sharks have?
Heterocercal
Whatdo sharks use to hold onto female sharks during mating?
Claspers
How do humans exploit sharks
Shark fin soup, meat , oil, leather, cartilage and recreation
What ecosystem within the ocean are skates and rays adapted to?
An ocean bottom existance
Which fins are enlarged on skates and rays?
Pectoral fins
Where are the gill slits on skates and rays?
ventral side
What is the difference between skates tail and rays tail?
rays have long thin tails, skates have fleshy tails with 2 small dorsal fins and rows of thorns
Skates pelvicc fins have how many lobes
2
How do rays swim?
Move their pectoral fins up and down
How do skates swim?
Create a wave forward to backward along their pectoral fin edges
What sort of reproduction do rays have?
Ovoviviparious
What sort of reproduction do skates have?
Mostly oviparious
Chimaeras characteristics
ratfish and rabbitfish; long pointed tails and long heads,, operculum, have large plates for crushing prey, scaleless, bottom dwellers
Two lineages of bony fish
Ray finned and lobe finned
Lobe finned fish charactetistics
Thick fleshy fins with bony support and have gills and lung sacks
Ray finned fish characteristics
Fins are supported by thin rays and have swim bladder for buoyancy
Lobfins skeletons are made of
Bones and cartilage
What kinds of scales do modern bony fish have?
Cycloid and ctenoid