Mouths
Fish mouth that is located in the front of the head pointing forward.
What is a terminal mouth?
Uppermost part of a fish's jaw.
What is the upper jaw?
The base of the caudal fin.
What is the caudal peduncle?
Fin that allows for abrupt changes in side-to-side direction and speed.
What is the pectoral fin?
A fish with a shorter upper jaw and longer lower jaw.
What is a superior mouth?
Lowest part of a fish's jaw.
What is the lower jaw?
Scales around the lateral line of a fish.
What are lateral line scales?
Fin that helps with steering as well as balance.
What is the ventral fin?
Most common fish mouth type.
What is a terminal mouth type?
Holes that are normally in front of the eyes on a fish and used for smelling.
What is the nostrils?
The system that measures the relative movements between their body and the surrounding water in fish.
What are lateral lines?
A fin that was evolved to help spiny-rayed fish.
What is a spiny dorsal fin?
Fish mouth that generally means that the fish is a bottom feeder.
What is an inferior mouth?
Part of the fish's jaw that is most typically thought of with catfish.
What is the barbel?
The main types of scales found on fish.
What are Placoid, Cosmoid, Ganoid, Cycloid/Ctenoid scales?
A fleshy fin found on the back behind the dorsal fin and just forward of the caudal fin.
What is a soft dorsal / adipose fin?
Fish with a structural arrangement of the jaws that enables it to extend or withdraw its mouth at will.
What is a protrusible mouth?
Protective layer before a fish's gills.
What is a bony gill cover?
The kind of fish that typically have cycloid and ctenoid scales.
Thin, paired fins supported by dermal rays.
What is a fin ray?