The 4 traits one must have during at least one life stage to be considered a chlorate.
What are dorsal nerve chord, notochord, and pharyngeal gill slits?
This is used to protect the fish from infection and helps them slip through the water easier.
What is mucus?
Some species of shark will do this heinous act in the womb.
What is sibling cannibalization?
The name of this tail.
What is a lunate tail?
This nasty jawless fish produces a protective slime.
What is a hagfish?
The percent of fishes that are bony.
What is 95%
Instead of calcium carbonate bone, shark's cartilaginous skeletons are made of this.
What are cells and protein?
The name of this kind of mouth.
What is a Terminal Mouth?
The name of this fish.
What is a lamprey?
This fish shape reduces drag.
What is fusiform?
Sharks use this to sense electrical pulses.
What are Amullae of Lorenzini?
The name of this plate.
What is a fish's operculum?
These are born as tadpole looking things but dich the 4 traits of a chordate when they reach adulthood.
What are sea squirts (Tunicates)?
Besides absorbing oxygen, the gill rakes also do this.
What channel incoming food particles to the esophagus?
The name of the shark's scales.
What are dermal denticles?
That is a lateral line.
What is used to pick up vibrations in the water over long distances.
This creature is not a chordate, but it has a dorsal nerve chord, making scientist believe this phylum is what chordates evolved from.
What is an Acorn worm?
Fast fish tend to be this.
What is endothermic?
Roughly the amount of shark species there are.
What is 250?
This fish organ is what our lungs used to be.
What is the swim bladder?