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Classification
Anatomy
Bony Fishes
Cartilaginous Fishes
Miscellaneous
100
Class that includes perch, tuna, sardine, and eel.
What is Osteichthyes?
100
For a shark, the ___________ provides buoyancy.
What is the liver?
100
The gill cover is called the ____________.
What is operculum?
100
Sharks possess specialized pits called ampullae of lorenzini that are located on their snouts and help to detect ___________ ______________.
What is electrical fields?
100
This method of reproduction/development occurs when the embryo develops within the female and are nourished by the female.
What is viviparous?
200
Class that includes the whale shark.
What is Chondrichthyes?
200
As a fish's swim bladder gets larger, it moves _______.
What is up?
200
Bony fishes use this method of respiration:
What is muscular pumping mechanism?
200
Sharks have this type of scale:
What is placoid?
200
A fish that lives near the surface of the water may have this type of mouth:
What is upward-turned?
300
Hagfish belong to subphylum __________ and class ____________.
What is Hyperotreti and Myxini?
300
Fish have a ___________ circulatory system and a heart with __________ parts.
What is closed, 4?
300
Members of class Osteichthyes use a _________ _____________ for buoyancy.
What is a swim bladder?
300
Members of class Chondrichthyes have ___________ mouths.
What is ventral?
300
This type of caudal fin indicates the fastest type of fish:
What is crescent?
400
Lamprey belong to subphylum ______________ and class ________________.
What are Vertebrata and Cephalospidomorphi?
400
The main function of this fin is steering and turning.
What is the pectoral fin?
400
Most bony fishes are _______________ with respect to reproduction and development of the embryo.
What is oviparous?
400
Sharks use this method of respiration:
What is ram ventilation?
400
Freshwater fish produce ____________ urine.
What is diluted?
500
A gnathostome is a fish with _____________.
What is a jaw?
500
The cloaca is the opening where these 3 systems open to the outside of the fish:
What are the reproductive, excretory, and digestive?
500
The 3 possible scale types and an example of a fish with each:
What is ctenoid=perch cycloid=salmon ganoid=gar?
500
Whale sharks and basking sharks filter plankton using their ________ ___________.
What are gill rakers?
500
This means that water and blood move in opposite directions through the gills:
What is counter-current exchange mechanism?