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Types of Fish Flashcards

1
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Name an example of long-lived species of fish.

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White Sturgeon

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2
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Name some characteristics of the white sturgeon.

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  1. Largest freshwater fish species in North America
  2. Lives over 150 years
  3. 12 ft 1100 Ibs
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3
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What are superlative fishes?

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Unusual fish with strange characteristics

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4
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Name an example of a superlative fish.

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Coelacanth

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5
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Name some characteristics of the coelacanth.

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  1. Primitive (Old)
  2. Living Fossil
  3. Tetrapod ancestor
  4. 6 ft 200 Ibs
  5. Oil emersion system of buoyancy
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6
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Who was known to have discovered the coelacanth?

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Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

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7
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What are Ganoid Fish?

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A fish that has unusual scales and inside structures

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8
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What is the largest fish in the world?

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Whale Shark

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9
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What is the most venomous fish species?

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Stonefish

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10
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What fish mistakes human urethra for food?

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Candira

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What fish has very restricted habitats due its few numbers and could be the rarest fish in the world?

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Devil’s Hole Pupfish

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12
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Characteristics of Queensland Lungfish

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  1. Can live on land for 4 years

2. Become dormant when ponds are dry

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What are Physostome fish? Examples.

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Fish that have a pneumatic duct that connects to the gas bladder and alimentary canal
-Bichirs, Gars, Carps, Trouts, Herrings, Catfishes, Eels, and Lungfishes

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Characteristics of the Gas Bladder for Physostome Fish

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  1. Gas Bladder can be filled with water or emptied through mouth
  2. Serve as a lung
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What are Physoclistous Fish?

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Fish that lack a pneumatic duct that connects to the gas bladder and alimentary canal

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16
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Characteristics of the Gas Bladder for Physocilstous Fish.

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  1. Serves as buoyancy organ

2. Gasses are transferred there through the gas gland and rate mirabile

17
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Characteristics of Halibut Fish. (4)

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  1. Largest Flatfish in the world
  2. Omnivorous (eat both meat and plants)
  3. Highly regarded food
  4. Born with opposite eyes (one moves to the other side)
18
Q

Where in the world would you find a wide range of diversity of fish?

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Columbia-South America

19
Q

What fish is considered the ugliest fish in the world?

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Blobfish

20
Q

What fish has venom glands near (or on) spines that are easily ruptured?

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Catfish

21
Q

What fish is consider to be gill rackers and filter feeders?

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Paddle Fish

22
Q

What fish is able to generate 1 volt of electricity, but not able to stung prey?

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Peter’s Elephant-nose Fish

23
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What is the electricity in the Peter’s Elephant-nose Fish used for?

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  1. Navigation
  2. Object Detection
  3. Communication

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