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Marine Vertebrates: Fishes (Part 1). Chordates. Common features of all chordates: Dorsal (back) hollow nerve cord Notochord (flexible support rod, becomes backbone in vertebrates) Gill slits in the pharynx Post-anal tail Ventral heart. Phylum Chordata. Subphylum
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Marine Vertebrates: Fishes (Part 1)
Chordates • Common features of all chordates: • Dorsal (back) hollow nerve cord • Notochord (flexible support rod, becomes backbone in vertebrates) • Gill slits in the pharynx • Post-anal tail • Ventral heart
Phylum Chordata Subphylum Urochordata (larva) Subphylum Vertebrata (embryo) Subphylum Cephalochordata (adult)
Fishes • Phylum Chordata • Subphylum Vertebrata • 3 Classes: • Class Agnatha (jawless fishes) • Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) • Class Osteichthyes (bony fishes)
Fishes • Class Agnatha (jawless fishes) • Hagfishes (slime eels, not true eels) • Lampreys (mostly freshwater) • Most primative fishes • Lack: jaws, paired fins, scales • Round mouth, teeth, feed by suction NOAA USGS
Fishes • Class Agnatha (jawless fishes) • Not true vertebrates? • Notochord skeleton (no vertebrae) • Cartilage skull Hagfish Lamprey green = notochord blue = cartilage Shark http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/craniata.gif
Agnatha • Hagfish • Bore or burrow head first, gills farther from head • Slime glands • Sea Lampreys • Attach and suck blood from other fishes • Breed in freshwater, move to sea as adults
Hagfish • Slime as defense mechanism • Tie themselves in knots to rid excess slime • “Eelskin leather” not really from eels, but from hagfish http://vivaldi.zool.gu.se/Fiskfysiologi_2001/Course_material/Introduction_fish_evolution/Images/Hagfish_slime.jpg
Fishes • Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) • Chimaeras (ratfishes) • Sharks, rays, skates • Vertebra, skeleton of cartilage • Placoid scales (like sandpaper) • Ventral mouth under head
Chimaeras • Subclass Holocephali • Called ratfishes, rabbitfishes, ghost sharks • Only one pair external gill slits • Almost no scales • Poisonous spine on first dorsal fin for defense
Chimaeras • Mostly deep sea • Feed on bottom (crustaceans, molluscs) NOAA http://img.geo.de/div/image/59517/langnasenchimaere-popup.jpg http://www.elasmodiver.com/Sharkive%20images/Spotted%20ratfish%20028.jpg
Sharks • Subclass Elasmobranchii • Heterocercal tail (caudal fin) • 5-7 pairs of gill slits • 2 dorsal fins, 2 pectoral fins “dermal denticles”
Sharks Relative sizes of sharks
Sharks • Largest species: • Whale sharks (up to 60 ft) • Basking sharks (up to 50 ft) • Filter feeders (eat plankton) Whale (Rhincodon typus) Basking (Cetorhinus maximus)
Sharks • Jaws! • Powerful jaws • Rows of replacable teeth Sand tiger (Odontaspis taurus) http://www.evolutionnyc.com//ImgUpload/P_455917_964647.jpg
Sharks Blue (Prionace glauca) Blacktip (Carcharhinus limbatus) Shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) Great white (Carcharodon carcharias) http://www.akvariumas.lt/naujienos/prionace_glauca.jpg http://www.bite-back.com/images/mako%20shark.jpg http://www.elasmodiver.com/Sharkive%20images/Great-White-Shark-002.jpg
Sharks Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) Bonnethead Great hammerhead javascript:popUp('/_n/s/viewer/index.asp?id=373&pic=_05/Sphyrna_tiburo1.jpg') http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/news/images/2005-gr8hammerhead1.jpg
Sharks Thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) Sandbar, brown shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) Porbeagle (Lamna nasus) Greenland shark http://www.malapascua-diving.com/Images/Large/Fish/thresher.04.jpg http://www.elasmodiver.com/Sharkive%20images/Sandbar-Shark-001.jpg http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/sharks/porbeagle.jpg http://dsc.discovery.com/sharks/shark-types/greenland-shark.jpg
Sharks Nurse Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) Leopard Tasseled wobbegong http://www.elasmodiver.com/Sharkive%20images/Nurse-shark004.jpg http://www.elasmodiver.com/Sharkive%20images/Spiny%20dogfish%20059.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tasseled_wobbegong_shark.jpg http://www.cabrilloaq.org/images/leopardshark.jpg
Sharks Cookie cutter shark Megamouth Goblin shark http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/3149/Isistius%20plutodus%20I-28924-0.jpg http://science.discovery.com/tv/goblin-shark/images/goblin-shark-250.jpg http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/CookiecutterShark/cookiecuttersharkbite_profile.jpg
Sharks Pygmy Dwarf lantern shark • up to 10 inches • meso- and bathypelagic • up to 7 inches • mesopelagic http://amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/images/saliae2.jpg http://www.sharkmans-world.com/images/species/etmopterus_perryi.jpg
Sharks It’s not safe to go in the... river? 1916 – 2 shark attacks in Matawan Creek, NJ 1.5 miles upstream from bay, 12 miles from ocean Bull (Carcharhinus leucas) http://www.njscuba.net/biology/images/matawan_creek_aerial.jpg
Sharks It’s not safe to be out of the water? http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/sharks/shortfin_mako_jump.jpg http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/photogalleries/sharks1/ http://www.newenglandsharks.com/thresher%20jumping%20leonard.jpg
Rays and Skates • Subclass Elasmobranchii • Flat body • Pectoral fins like wings • 5 pairs of gill slits, underside
Rays Pelagic varieties Manta ray Spotted eagle ray http://www.jochenlenzdive.de/scubatech/images/stories/divingongrenada/scubatech%20dive%20center%20grenada%20eagle%20rays%20bianca%20c%20scuba%20diving%20in%20grenada%20dive%20grenada%20dive%20center%20grenada%20tauchbasis%20grenada%20%20tauchshop%20grenada%20tauchen%20grenada%20plonger%20a%20grenade.jpg http://www.elasmodiver.com/Sharkive%20images/Manta-ray-14.jpg
Rays Yellow stingray Roughtail stingray (Dasyatis centroura) Benthic varieties http://www.elasmodiver.com/images/Roughtail-stingray-02.jpg
Rays • Atlantis Marine World Stingray Bay: • Southern stingrays • Cownose rays
Rays Venomous barbs http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/education/adapt/raytail2.JPG http://www.hawaii.rr.com/leisure/reviews/jennifer_crites/2004-02_ssafari.htm
Rays • Giant stingrays of Thailand (freshwater) • 7.5 ft across, 10 ft tail, 771 lbs http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd8/SacEAuaNbDI/AAAAAAAAEVA/1qMyWczSjOg/s1600-h/Giant+Stingray.jpg
Other Rays Atlantic torpedo, electric ray (Torpedo nobiliana) Sawfish Guitarfish http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/pisces/tornob.jpg http://www.aquafauna.be/marins/Fish/Sharks%20&%20Rays/Rhynchobatus%20djiddensis.JPG http://www.elasmodiver.com/images/sawfish-ripleys-01.jpg
Skates Winter skate (Raja ocellata) Clearnose skate (Raja eglanteria) • Lay eggs, not live birth • No venomous spine • Mostly marine http://www.aqua.org/images/animals_details/Clearnose_skate.jpg http://www.elasmodiver.com/images/big-skate-xx5.jpg http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/topic_images/skate_egg_cases.jpg
Bony Fishes • Class Osteichthyes (bony fishes) • 96% of all fish • Vertebra, skeleton part/all bone • Cycloid or ctenoid scales • 4 pairs of gills, covered • Homocercal tail • Terminal mouth • Swim bladder ctenoid cycloid
Fishes Ray-finned bony fishes Lobe-finned bony fishes 2 subclasses Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus) http://bill.srnr.arizona.edu/classes/182/Vertebrates/BonyFishEvol-1.JPG http://hhnaturemuseum.org/dimages/95.jpg
NOAA Fishes – Long Island Bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli) American sand lance (Ammodytes americanus) Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) Mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) Atlantic menhaden, bunker (Brevoortia tyrannus) Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia) Striped killifish (Fundulus majalis) http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/other/sand_lance_school.jpg http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/other/bay_anchovy.jpg http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/njscuba/silverside.jpg http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/other/mummichog.jpg http://ridder.punt.nl/index.php?foto=true&id=152373&fgroep=10191#foto http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/other/striped_killy.jpg
Fishes – Long Island Striped bass (Morone saxatilis) Tautog (Tautoga onitis) Black sea bass (Centropristis striata) Cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus) Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) Scup, porgy (Stenotomus chrysops) http://www.njscuba.net/biology/sw_fish_sea_basses.html http://omp.gso.uri.edu/doee/biota/fish/scup.jpg http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/mohawk_cunners2.jpg http://www.soundwaters.org/creatures/salt%20creatures/tautog-blackfish.jpg http://www.sherpaguides.com/georgia/chattahoochee/sidebars/striped_bass.jpg http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/marine/bmr/bluefish2.jpg
Fishes – Long Island Northern puffer (Sphoeroides maculatus) NPS Northern pipefish (Syngnathus fuscus) Northern searobin (Prionotus carolinus) NOAA Goosefish (Lophius americanus) Ocean pout (Macrozoarces americanus) Red hake, ling (Urophycis chuss) Naked goby (Gobiosoma bosc) http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/other/northern_pipefish_3.jpg http://njscuba.net/images-uw/brink/ocean_pout.jpg http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/njscuba/naked_goby_2.jpg http://www.njscuba.net/images-uw/sea_robin_2.jpg http://marine.rutgers.edu/leophone/red_hake.jpg
Fishes – Long Island Left-eyed Windowpane (Scophthalmus aquosus) Summer flounder, fluke (Paralichthys dentatus) Right-eyed Winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus) Hogchoker (Trinectes maculatus) http://www.njscuba.net/biology/sw_fish_flounders.html
Fishes – Open Sea Bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) Ocean sunfish (Mola mola) Dolphinfish, Mahi mahi (Coryphaens hippurus) Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/15886/fad-underwater-dolphinfish.jpg http://www.mola.org/mola/molamola.gif http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/organism_images/lsl_open_m163.jpg http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/chanfreau/images/cocos2004/Sailfish.jpeg
Fishes - Tropical http://njscuba.net/images-uw/njscuba/squirrelfish.jpg http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/support/advancement/uw-2006/images/port2-s.jpg
Fishes - Tropical • Defenses: http://www.ri.net/schools/Narragansett/NES/%20Unuscreatures/TQErika/porcupinefish.jpg http://research.myfwc.com/gallery/ http://www.oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/stories/lionfish/media/lion04a_600.jpg http://www.daveread.com/FlowerGardens/LaborDay97/large/scorpionfish2.jpg
Fishes - Tropical • Cryptic/ camouflage: http://www.macalester.edu/geology/wirth/Photos/Dominica/image/frogfish.jpg http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/GDD/hydro/atmu/ecology/chapter4/
Fishes - Tropical • Schooling: http://www.geoffschultz.org/Reef/Fish/images/20050622-150703.JPG http://www.biology-blog.com/images/blogs/7-2007/fishes-in-exploited-reef-12981.jpg http://www.macalester.edu/geology/wirth/Photos/Dominica/
Fishes - Tropical • Predators: NOAA NOAA http://www.macalester.edu/geology/wirth/Photos/Dominica/ http://reefseekers.com/PIXPAGES/BAJA2005/Pananmic_Moray_Eel_vert.jpg
Fishes – Mesopelagic Zone • Most are small (few inches) • 90% are bristlemouths and lanternfish NOAA (5 cm = 2 in)
Fishes – Mesopelagic Zone Photos: http://www.mar-eco.no/
Fishes – Mesopelagic Zone • Large, light-sensitive eyes • Tubular, upward eyes • Bilobed eyes (up and lateral) http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2009/barreleye/barreleye1-350.jpg
Fishes – Bathypelagic Zone • Large mouths • Small eyes Photos: http://www.mar-eco.no/
Fishes – Bathypelagic Zone • Reproduction adaptations: • Difficult to find a mate • Bioluminescent signals • Pheromones, smell • Hermaphrodites (both sexes) • Parasitic males (in anglerfishes) Female = 1.8 in Male <0.25 in Smallest known sexually mature vertebrate http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/images/newsreleases/2006/January/20060127_pid22210_aid22209_anglerfish_w600.jpg
Fishes – Deep Sea Bottom • Relatively large and muscular • Active scavengers