Reading Assignment:

Chapter 14 Hagfishes and Lampreys

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Summary:

1. Rover predators

2. Lie-in-wait predators

3. Surface oriented fishes

4. Bottom fishes

5. Deep Bodied fishes

6. Eel-like fishes

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3. Surface-Oriented fishes

• Often small

• Upward tending mouth (superior or superterminal)

• Dorsoventrally flattened head

• Adapted to surface life

Poeciliidae-live bearersguppies

mollies

Gambusiamosquitofishend

Four-eyed fish

end

Cyprinodontidae-pupfish, killifish

banded killifish

end

• betas

• archerfish

Other surface oriented fishes

Gambusia

end

end

4. Bottom fishes (benthic)

• Swimbladder reduced or absent

• flattened dorsoventrally (depressed)

Atlantic halibutend

Bottom fishes continued

• Specialized structures:

sensory structures barbels, fin rays

modified fins (darters, clingfishes)

barbels

end

sea robin

sea robin

end

• flounders

• soles

• tonguefish

Pleuronectiformes-flatfishes

end

hog choker

end

Acipenseridae--sturgeons

lake sturgeon

end

Skates & rays

end

5. Deep-bodied fishes Laterally flattened (compressed)

• Dorsal and anal fins long

• Pectoral fins high on body

• Pelvic fins thoracic

• Mouth protrusible

• Fin spines

French angelfish

lookdown

butterfly fish

maneuverability

end

Centrarchidae-crappies & sunfishes

bluegillend

end

6. Eel-like fishes--elongated bodies

• Paired fins reduced or absent

• Dorsal and anal fins long

• Scales small or absent

• Flexible bodies

• Adapted for small crevices

end

American eel

slime eel

snake eel

end

moray eel

end

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Evolution of Gnathostomes

end

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Permian

Cretaceous

Quaternary

Cambrian505

Ordovician

438Silurian

408

Devonian

360Carboniferous

286

Triassic213

Jurassic144

Tertiary

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Myxini

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Teleostei

Chondrichthyes Actinoptergii

Sarcopterygii

lung

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amphibians

ostracoderm

placoderm

placoderm

placoderm

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end

• Skull--cartilaginous trough; jawless

• Notochord

• No appendicular skeleton

Myxini--hagfishes

end

Cephalaspidomorphi-lampreys

• Skull--cartilaginous trough; jawless

• cartilaginous vertebrae, no centra

• No appendicular skeleton

end

Placodermi-placoderms first jaws• Skull--first jawed fishes; bony tooth plates

end

Chondrichthyes-sharks, skates, rays, ratfishes

• Skull--cartilaginous; jaws protrusible, first true teeth

• cartilaginous vertebrate with centra

• Pelvic and pectoral fins well developed

end

Osteichthyes-bony fishes

puffer

• Skull--cartilaginous or bony; jaws with teeth; jaws variable

• cartilaginous or bony vertebral column with centra

• pelvic and pectoral fins well developed

end

gut

cranium

mouth

Evolution of the jaw

Primitive jawless stage

gill slits

visceral cartilages 8-9 arches

end

hypothetical placoderm

jaw

mandibular arch

end

chondirchthyian

hyoid archspiracle

end

Osteichthyian skull --5 elements

1. neurocranium

2. jaw

4. branchiohyoidapparatus

3. suspensorium

5. opercularbones

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