Osteichthyes

1. Describe general fish morphology; relate fins to movement.

2. Describe scale types and determine the age of fish.

3. Explain the functions of the mucus layer that cover fish.

4. Explain fish coloration.

5. Explain relationship between body shape and lifestyle.

6. Explain the relationship between swimming style, body shape, and zonation.

7. Describe fish sense organs.

8. Describe the relationship between type intestine and type food ingested.

9. Explain relationship between food source and location of mouth and type of teeth.

10. Explain how some fish maintain body temperature greater than that of the water.

Vocabulary

bycatch
Ray
Homocoercal
lunate
heterocoercal
fusiform
vestibular organ 
lateral line
operculum
ctenoid
ganoid
cycloid
placoid
annuli
chromatophores
iridiophore
cryptic/disruptive coloration
countershading
crangiform
ostraciform
anguilliform
rete mirabile
catadromous
anadromous

TEXT: READ Chapter 7 in Castro and Huber.