Fish Parts
Covers the body of fish for protection and reduces friction
What are scales?
A jawless fish, most are parasitic with a suction cup mouth
What are lamprey?
Lateral line
Where is on both sides of the body?
Environment of fish
What is aquatic?
Shark with odd shaped head
Hammerhead shark
Allow fish to move left to right, upward and backward, and add stability
What are fins?
Burrow inside dead or decaying fish and consume from inside out.
What are hagfish?
Dorsal Fin
Where is on the back?
Type of fertilization utilized by cartilaginous fish
What is internal fertilization?
Jumping sharks of South Africa
The Great White
A gas filled sac that is used to control buoyancy
What is a swim bladder?
Cartilaginous fish with fusiform body shape, ideal predators with 6-10 rows of teeth
What are sharks?
Caudal Fin
Where is the tail?
Fish that give birth to live young
Ovoviviparous
Family of fish known for their spawning behavior of returning to natal streams
Trout and Salmon
Jaws are thought to have evolved from the first pair of these
What are gill arches
Cartilaginous fish with flattened bodies and winged pectoral fins
What are skates and rays?
Barbels
Where is mouth or snout?
Name of the reproductive behavior of fish where they sometimes migrate, or build crude nests to lay eggs
What is spawning?
These fish have taste buds all over their body on their skin
What are catfish?
Specialized scales on shark skin with small toothlike spines that feel like sandpaper
What are placoid scales?
Fleshy lobes within their fins, bony fish containing only 7 species that exist today
Coelacanths and lungfish
Operculum
Where is over the gills?
The ability to detect chemicals in the environment
What is chemoreception?
Live in the deep dark ocean and use bioluminescence to hunt
Angler fish