'Order' up
Herring, Catfish, Minnows
What is Otomorpha
Flatfish and other bottom dwellers
What is Depressiform
Otoliths are small inner ear bones that help fish hear, detect gravity, and this
What is maintaining balance
These heavy scales are found on sturgeons, bichirs, and gars
What are ganoid scales
The body part that connects the tail to the trunk of the fish
What is the Caudal Peduncle
Like the Xenomorphs in the Alien franchise, eels have this, a second set of jaws
Pharyngeal jaws
Lampridiformes
What are Opahs, Oarfish
Pacific Spiny Lumpsuckers
What is Globiform
This organ functions to keep fish on the straight and narrow by sensing the displacement of water and pressure
What is The lateral line
These scales grow in concentric rings and have smooth outer edges
What are cycloid scales
The type of muscle associated with sustained swimming
What are Red muscles
These types of feeders make up less than 5% of all fish species
What are herbivores
Bichirs
What is Cladistia
Sit and wait predators like barracuda
What is Sagittiform (or Fusiform)
Sounds, vibrations, and other displacements of the water
What is Mechanoreception
These scales have comb-like projections at the edge
What are ctenoid scales
What purpose do pyloric caeca, villi, and the spiral valve hold in digestion?
What is Expanding surface area
This Poikilotherm acronym ( RMR ) shows a modest level of activity, while metabolic rate is measured
What is routine Metabolic rate
Elopomorpha
What are Eels, tarpons
Pipefish
What is Filliformes
This sense can be used for communication, sensing of objects, or stunning of prey (or aquarists)
What is electroreception
These dentine-covered structures are found on sharks
What are placoid scales or dermal denticles
This form of gas bladder is more susceptible to barotrauma
What is Physoclistous
Food is used for these three functions
What are maintenance, growth, and reproduction
Osteoglosomorpha
What are elephant fish or bony-tounge
Gunnels and cockscombs
What is Taeniformes
This sense plays a role in prey detection, social behavior, and reproduction
What is olfaction
Bottomfish have these kinds of scales
What are no scales
These bands of muscle along the entire fish, and the connective tissue separating them
What are myomeres and myosepta/septum
This type of feeding strategy has a limited assortment of food, whereas this other feeding type has more of a mixed diet
What is stenophagous and euryphagous