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Special Fish
Anatomy
Behavior
Reproduction
Miscellaneous
100
The largest of all fish
What is the Whale Shark?
100
This internal cavity allows most fish to float in the water column with little effort; buoyancy.
What is the Air or Swim Bladder?
100
The act of a group of fish swimming together
What is Schooling?
100
The act of a female fish depositing her eggs
What is Spawning?
100
The geologic era, known as the 'Age of the Fishes'.
What is the Paleozoic Era?
200
This very large chondrichthyoid is also known as the 'Devilfish'
What is the Manta Ray?
200
What organ is found directly beneath the Operculum on the boney fish?
What are the Gills?
200
This sperm-rich fluid will be spread over a clutch of eggs
What is Milt?
200
The transitional form that connected fish to eventual land animals
What is the Fishapod?
300
This CT native lives in our ponds and streams and moves to Long Island Sound to spawn.
What is the American Eel.
300
This row of specialized scales picks up vibrations in the water.
What is the Lateral Line?
300
An egg-laying creature is referred to as:
What is Oviparous?
300
What the prefix in the term Osteichthyes indicates.
What is bone?
400
This CT native lives most of its life out in the Atlantic Ocean, but returns to spawn in the rivers of New England.
What is the Atlantic Salmon?
400
The streamlined, water resistant body shape seen in fish
What is Fusiform?
400
A type fish that lives most of its life at sea, but returns inland to breed.
What is Anadromous?
400
A marketable reproductive material in fish, especially in Europe
What is Caviar?
400
In the term Chondrichthyes, what the prefix chondri indicates.
What is Cartilage?
500
This shark has the unique ability to swim a surprising distance inland.
What is the Bull Shark?
500
Shark scales are coated with this substance, allowing extra protection
What is Enamel?
500
A type of fish that lives most of its life in ponds and streams, but descends to the ocean to spawn.
What is Catadromous?
500
The ability to 'bear live young', found in certain fish species
What is Ovoviparous?
500
This primitive, jawless fish created major issues in the Great Lakes region early in the 1900's.
What is the Sea Lamprey.