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Lesson 6a: Fishes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I. True or False: Write T for True and F for False. II. Identification: Write your answer on the blanks provided below.
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F Fishes form a monophyletic group. 1. A lateral line system detects water currents and vibrations, a
T
____2. Fish can adjust to salt & water balance of the environment. sense of ___________
distant ___________.
touch
____3.
F Cartilaginous fishes are currently the most dominant fishes. 2. Agnathans do not have a vertebrae but have a _______________.
cranium
____4.
F “Fishes” refers to one or more individuals of one species; horny spines
3. Acanthodians resemble bony fish but have __________ __________
“Fish” refer to more than one species. on all fins except the caudal fin.
____5.
T Earliest fish-like vertebrates were a paraphyletic group of osmotic _________________
4. The body fluids of a hagfish are in ____________ equilibrium
agnathan fishes. with seawater.
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F Mesozoic is called the Age of Fishes. 5. Lamprey eggs hatch in two weeks into unique larvae called
____7.
F Chondrichthyes have extensive calcification and true bones. ammocoetes The larva is a suspension-feeder until it
____________________.
____8.
T Sharks have lidless eyes. metamorphoses into an adult.
____9.
F Sharks have tough, leathery skin with ctenoid scales that 6. Cartilaginous fishes lost the heavy dermal armor and adopted
reduce water turbulence. cartilage as the skeleton.
_______________
____10.
T Some sharks have external fertilization. Copenhagen ________________
7. __________________ Academy Science offered a prize
of ____________
____11.
T Sharks are oviparous, viviparous and ovoviviparous. over a century ago for information on hagfish breeding habits.
____12.
F Animals from class Sarcopterygii lack teeth but have large Parasitic lampreys
8. _______________ ____________ attach to a fish by a sucker-like mouth
flat plates for crushing food. and inject anticoagulants into a wound to promote flow of blood.
____13.
T To keep from sinking, sharks must continually move forward. 9. More than 1/2 of elasmobranchs are rays which are most
____14.
T Most fish do not chew food since it would block water flow specialized for ____________ _________.
benthic life
across the gills. Instead, they swallow food whole. 10. Sharks are among the most gracefully streamlined of fishes,
____15.
F Some active fishes use ram ventilation because forward having bodies with a _______________
fusiform shape.
movement isn’t sufficient enough to force water across gills. 11. The front of a shark’s ventral mouth is the pointed ______________.
rostrum
____16.
F Most fish stop growing when they reach maturity. 12. Shark tails have a longer upper lobe with a _____________
heterocercal pattern
____17.
T Growth in fishes is temperature dependent.
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spiracle
13. Behind each shark eye is a _________________, a remnant of the IV. Fill the Tables: Fill in the following table with the correct answer.
first gill slit.
1-4. anadromous fishes catadromous fishes
ampullae of Lorenzini electroreceptors are
14. Also called _____________________________,
Lives in 1. saltwater 2. freshwater
located on the shark’s head and are used to detect electric fields.
saltwater/freshwater
mermaid's
15. Some oviparous sharks and rays lay a capsule or _______________
Spawns in 3. freshwater 4. saltwater
_____________
purse that catches onto kelp with tendrils. saltwater/freshwater
endochondral bones that replaces
16. Bony fishes have ____________________
cartilage developmentally.
5-6. saltwater fishes freshwater fishes
17, During the Paleozoic, the tail of lobe-finned fishes became
diphycercal
symmetrical with a continuous fin known as ________________________. hyperosmotic/ 5. hypoosmotic 6. hyperosmotic
hypoosmotic (salt-secreting) (salt-absorbing)
Their skin was covered with heavy scales consisting of regulator
________________
cosmine overlaid by thin enamel.
18. The lateral force makes the fish’s head __________.
yaw 7-8. warmer fishes colder fishes
19. Euryhaline fishes live in _______________
estuaries where salinity fluctuates
Grow more/less 7. grow more 8. grow less
throughout the day. rapidly rapidly rapidly
20. Many of the plankton feeders swim in large schools and use
the _________
gill ___________
rakers to strain food.
9-10. hagfishes lampreys

have/lack vertebrae 9. have vertebrae 10. lack vertebrae

III. Enumeration: Enumerate what is asked of.
A. 5 Types of Animals according to their diet
1. __________________________________
omnivores
carnivores 11-13. lungfishes eels bowfins
2. __________________________________
herbivores Respiration via 11. lungs 12. gills 13. gills or
3. __________________________________
scavengers lungs/gills/swim
4. __________________________________ swim
parasites/parasitic bladder
bladder
5. __________________________________
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V. Matching Type: Choices may be repeated. ____7. These fishes lack jaws, internal ossification, scales and
C/D
paired fins.
A. ray-finned fishes N. Osteichthyes
L
____8. Lampreys belong to this class.
B. lobe-finned fishes O. Actinopterygii
C. hagfishes P. Sarcopterygii M This class has the 2nd largest living vertebrates.
____9.
D. lampreys Q. Holocephali W
____10. This means “metal plate”.
E. gills R. Elasmobranch
M Although a smaller and more ancient group, this class has
____11.
F. operculum S. Squaliformes well-developed sense organs, powerful jaws and predaceous
G. enamel T. Carcharhinidae habits for their survival.
H. squaline U. Coelacanth ____12.
R Animals under this subclass (such as sharks, skates and
I. swim bladder V. teleosts rays) have 5-7 lateral to ventral gill openings on each side.
J. myomeres W. elasmos ____13.
Z This means “dirty or filthy”.
K. Myxini X. branchus
____14.
X This means “gill”.
L. Cephalaspidomorphi Y. lamna
M. Chondrichthyes ____15.
T A large cosmopolitan family of sharks with no spines in the
Z. squalus dorsal fin.

Y
____16. This means “fish of prey”.
K Hagfishes belong to this class.
____1.
____17.
Q Chimeras belong to this class.
____2. These fishes have pore-like gill openings and an eel-like
C/D
body. ____18.
F This increases respiratory efficiency.
A These fishes radiated to form modern bony fishes.
____3. ____19.
S Animals under this order have dorsoventrally flattened
bodies, 2 spiny dorsal fins, a sharp head, 5-7 gill slits but no anal
____4.
M Cartilaginous fishes belong to this class. fin or nictitating membrane.
____5.
B These fishes are a relict group with few species today, but N
____20. Bony fishes belong to this class.
include the sister group of the tetrapods
____21.
V These animals live in seas or swamps and constitute 96% of
____6.
K Fishes under this class are scavengers and predators of all living fishes and half of all vertebrates.
annelids, molluscs, dead or dying fishes. They are nearly blind but
can locate food by an acute sense of smell and touch. ____22.
O Ray-finned fishes belong to this class.
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P
____23. Lobe-finned fishes belong to this class. 3.

____24.
J These are zigzag bands that help arrange fish muscles.
They have the shape of a W on the side of the fish.

U
____25. This animal is a descendant of Devonian freshwater stock
with a diphycercal tail with a small lobe between the upper and
lower lobes.

____26.
I This is the most efficient flotation device. ampullae of
lorenzini
____27.
H This is a fatty hydrocarbon that acts to keep sharks a little
buoyant. 4.

____28.
E These are filaments with thin epidermal membranes folded enamel
into plate-like lamellae.

VI. Label the Diagrams: Fill in the blank boxes with the correct labels.
1.
swim bladder

ganoid

placoid

myomeres
2.

cycloid ctenoid