Morphology
What is Morphology?
The relationship of fish structures and their adaptions
What is a homocercal shape in fish morphology?
Symmetrical
How do fusiform fish move?
move tail side to side
What are scales?
overlapping series of hard plates that protect a fishies body
What types of fish only move their tail in a undulating motion?
Carangiforms
What is Fusiform?
football shaped, tapered on both ends, torpedo shaped
Where would you find compressiform fish at?
coral reefs, benthic zone
How does a depressiform fish move?
flap fins up and down
What is the purpose of scales?
the provide protection from predators and infection
Show a rowing/sculling type swimming.
rowing
Which kind of tail has the most drag?
rounded
Name a example of a deipressiform fish
flounder, skate, ray
What is oscillation?
fins pivot on a base
What kind of fish have cycloid and ctenoid scales?
telosti(bony fish)
Show me what kind of dance a anguilliform would do?
snake like pattern
What are the four body shape commonly found in fish?
fusiform, compressiform, depressiform, filliform
What is the shape of a heteroceral caudal fin?
asymmetrical
What does BCF stand for?
Body Caudal Fin Movement
What kind of fish have placoid scales?
sharks
Show me how depressiforms swim?
flap like a bird
What shape is nemo?
compresiform
What shape of caudal fin is shaped for swimming long distances, but not the fastest fish?
forked
What do myomeres do?
Make the body undulate
What are the three types of scales?
Ctenoid, Placoid, Cycloid.
Show me how a tuna swims
with your feetsdf