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Stuart S. Sumida Biology 342 ( Simplified) Phylogey of Fishes

Stuart S. Sumida Biology 342 ( Simplified) Phylogey of Fishes. HAGFISHES: Living relict group of fishes often considered to be amongst most primitive of vertebrates. Jawless, poorly developed cranial structures, no ossified vertebral elements.

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Stuart S. Sumida Biology 342 ( Simplified) Phylogey of Fishes

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  1. Stuart S. Sumida Biology 342 (Simplified)Phylogey of Fishes

  2. HAGFISHES: • Living relict group of fishes often considered to be amongst most primitive of vertebrates. • Jawless, poorly developed cranial structures, no ossified vertebral elements.

  3. CONDONTS: Originally thought not to be vertebrates, but their best known components made of same material as teeth and bones (therefore probably from neural crest material)

  4. CONDONTS: Originally thought not to be vertebrates, but their best known components made of same material as teeth and bones (probably from neural crest material)

  5. Diversity of extinct jawless fishes

  6. Note: The Conodontia, the lineage including [arandaspids + heterostracans], and all other fishes form a polychotomy. This mans we know they are all more closely related to one-another, but we don’t have enough data (or the data aren’t clear enough) for us to determine exactly which among the groups are more closely related to one another. Not exactly satisfying, but the most honest thing to say.

  7. Arandaspids and Heterostracans: • Jawless fishes with very bony scales/exoskeletal structures. • Frequently characterized by a tail with adownlard turned major lobe (known as a “hypocercal tail”. Pharyngeolepis, a heterostracan

  8. Arandaspis

  9. Lampreys and their relatives: • Lampreys are the last living relicts of a lineage of jawless fishes that stretches as far back as the Devonian. • Living lampreys probably are not like their Devonian relatives. • Note that they do not have paired appendages, only midline fins.

  10. Osteostraci: • A group of heavily armored jawless fishes • May have been the first to have paired appendages • Had extensive head shields demonstrating their sensory organs. • The sensory organs included electorecptors.

  11. PLACODERMI • Closest relatives of living cartilagenous fishes • Known since Devonian • Big cutting jaw plates, but not true teeth

  12. PLACODERMI: Closest relatives of living cartilagenous fishes; Known since Devonian; Big cutting jaw plates, but not true teeth

  13. Dave Dunkle and Dunkleosteous

  14. Bothriolepis

  15. CHONDRICHTHYES: The Cartilagenous Fishes Includes: sharks, skates and rays, holocephalians

  16. Iniopterygians

  17. Helicoprion

  18. A Chimera (a holocephalian)

  19. ACANTHODII • Acanthodians are often referred to as “spiny sharks” – but were not real sharks. • Know as far back as Silurian • Abundant until Early Permian • Generally considered to be the sister-group to bony fishes.

  20. Reconstructions of Acanthodians

  21. OSTEICHTHYES (BONY FISH) • Most diverse groups of vertebrates • Enormous diversity of sizes, shapes, habitats. • Includes: • Actinopterygii (“Ray-finned fishes”) • Sarcopterygii (“Lobe-finned fishes”) • (Both groups known as far back as early Devonian)

  22. Garibaldi: The California State Marine Fish

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