FISH STRUCTURE AND FORM
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Fundamentals of Fisheries Biology
FT 273, 2 February 2015
FISH STRUCTURE AND
FORM
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• Locomotion
• Camouflage
• Communication
• Habitat
• Protection
• Phylogeny
MAJOR DETERMINANTS OF
BODY SHAPE/FORM:
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1. describe the six basic categories of fish body shape
2. differentiate the different types of scales and which belong
to which fish
3. describe the purpose of each fish fin and how fins play an
important role in fish ecology
4. differentiate the function of white vs. red muscle
5. describe three different types of swimming
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
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DIVERSITY
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• Depressiform
• Filiform
• Fusiform
• Compressiform
• Sagittifrom
• Taeniform
• Globiform
• Anguilliform
BODY SHAPES
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• Normally life on the bottom
• Flap fins up and down to swim
• Skate and flounder
DEPRESSIFORM
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• Slither through the water like a snake
• Snake eel, American eel
FILLIFORM
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• Torpedo shapped
• Oval cross section
• Usually live in open water
FUSIFORM
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• Looks thin when viewed from the front
• Made for sharp turns and quick bursts of speed
• Live near refuges – lakes, ponds, reefs
• School when together in open water
COMPRESSIFORM
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• Arrow-like in appearance
• Fins usually back on body
SAGITTIFORM
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• Ribbon-like
• Good shape for hiding in cracks and crevases
• Not fast swimmers
TAENIFORM
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• “globe-like”
• Lumpsuckers and puffers
GLOBIFORM
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• “Eel-like”
• Allows fish to enter very narrow openings
• Also allows fish to resist force of currents
ANGUILLIFORM
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• Depressiform
• Filiform
• Fusiform
• Compressiform
• Sagittifrom
• Taeniform
• Globiform
• Anguilliform
BODY SHAPES
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• Depressiform
• Filiform
• Fusiform
• Compressiform
• Sagittifrom
• Taeniform
• Globiform
• Anguilliform
BODY SHAPES
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BREAK 1
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1. Rover-predator
2. Ambush predators
3. Surface oriented fish
4. Deep bodied fish
5. Eel and eel like fish
6. Bottom feeding fishes
MOST FISH FALL INTO ONE OF
SIX BROAD BODY SHAPE AND
LIFESTYLE CATEGORIES:
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1. ROVER-PREDATOR – THE
“CLASSIC FISH”
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• Fusiform (torpedo-shaped)
• Streamlined
• Forked sometimes lunate tail
• Fins distributed evenly
• Some have narrow caudal peduncles
ROVER PREDATOR
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BLACKFIN TUNA
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SWORDFISH
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KING SAILFISH
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2. AMBUSH PREDATORS
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AMBUSH PREDATORS
• Streamlined – very torpedo like (sagittiform)
• Have a flattened head, present a narrow frontal profile
• Have a large mouth and obvious teeth
• Pointy snouts large mouth
• Cryptic coloration
• Large caudal fin
• Fins set back on body and all in a row – iads in thrusting ability)
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NORTHERN PIKE
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BARRACUDA
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NEEDLEFISH
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3. SURFACE ORIENTED FISH
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SURFACE ORIENTED FISH
• Usually small sized
• Upward pointed mouth
• Dorsoventrally flattened head with large eyes
• Fins toward rear of body
• Morphology well suited for capturing plankton and small
fishes living in the surface waters.
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MOSQUITO FISH
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KILLIFISH
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FLYING FISH
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HALFBEAKS
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4. BOTTOM FEEDING FISHES
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• Swim bladder absent or greatly reduced
• Most body shapes flattened dorsoventrally
• Bottom fish exhibit several types of feeding behaviors:
• bottom rovers
• bottom clingers
• bottom hiders
• flatfish
• deep bodied
• eel like
• rattails
BOTTOM FEEDING FISHES
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BLUE LINED GOATFISH
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CATFISH
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MANDARINE GOBY
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SCULPIN
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NOPOLI GOBY
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HALIBUT
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SOUTHERN STING RAY
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BROAD SKATE
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RATTAILS
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5. DEEP BODIED FISH
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• Laterally compressed
• Deep bodied
• Dorsal and anal fins are relatively long
• Pectoral fins high on the body
• Pelvic fins moved forward
• Some have ventral keel
DEEP BODIED FISH
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DEEP BODIED FISH
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• Snake-like form
• Blunt or rounded heads
• Small or absent pectoral fins
• Dorsal and anal fins may be elongated
6. EEL-LIKE FISH
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SADDLED SNAKE EEL
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EUROPEAN EEL
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BREAK 2
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• Fish scales are dermally derived
• Vary greatly on bony fishes
• Can be armor like to no scales at all
• Bony plates – slow movers
• Protection
• Weight issues
TYPES OF SCALES
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• Placoid
• Ganoid
• Cycloid
• Ctenoid
FOUR MAIN TYPES
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• Also called “dermal denticals”
• Common in sharks
PLACOID SCALES
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• Bichirs, Bowfin, gars, sturgeons
• Usually rhomboid in shape
GANOID SCALES
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• Found in majority of bony fishes (Teleostei)
• Anterior usually overlapped by posterior of scale in front
• Gives fish more flexibility than fish with ganoid or cosmoid scales
• As a fish with cycloid or ctenoid scales grows, its scales also grow
• results in a pattern of concentric growth rings on the scale
CYCLOID AND CTENOID SCALES
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• Are often round flat and thin
CYCLOID SCALES
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• Often found on spiny fish
• Similar to cycloid except for tiny projections
CTENOID SCALES
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• Fins
• Other Structures
• Skeletal System
• Muscular System
• Locomotion
FISH ANATOMY
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• Varied and many forms
• Aid in locomotion, stability
• Generally located high up on sides of deep bodied fish which rely on precise movement to pick up food from bottom or in water column
• In rover predators these fins tend to be more toward or below the midline
• In slower moving rover predators or fish needing more surface area for stablility fins tend to be more rounded
PECTORAL FINS
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• Generally long on rover predators and deep bodied fish to
provide stability while swimming
• Modified for swimming, reproduction (mosquitofish)
• May be continuous in eel like fish
DORSAL AND ANAL FINS
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• Fleshy dorsal found in Salmonidae, smelts (Osmeridae),
lanternfish (Myctophidae), catfish and CHARACINS
• Small size and lack of rays make it a mystery fin
• May be important post-larval when other fins poorly developed
ADIPOSE FIN
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CAUDAL FINS
• “tail fins”
• Size and shape is dependent upon ecology and lifestyle
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HOMOCERCAL
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HETEROCERCAL TAIL
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Break 3
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• Developed independently in several groups
• Spines are effective, lightweight means of protection
• Increase the effective size of a fish
• May be poisonous (scorpionfish)
SPINES
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• Reveals much about fish and its habit
• Position, shape size all related to what fish do
• Bottom feeding fish have downward pointing mouth – inferior
• Surface oriented fish have upward on superior pointing mouth
• Most fish however fall into the category of terminal mouth – that is location at end of snout
• Size and shape of mouth usually reflects shape of preferred food organism
MOUTH STRUCUTRES
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• are covered in most bony fish by thin flexible bony structure
called the operculum
• little variability – but size varies
(bigger on active fish; smaller on less active fish)
GILL OPENINGS
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EYES
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• Vertebral column
• Skull
• Appendicular skeleton
SKELETAL SYSTEM
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• The vertebral column of fishes ranges in
complexity from the very primitive notochord
found in hagfishes, the cartilaginous vertebral
column of the Chondrichthyes to the totally
ossified vertebrae of the Osteichthyes
• The vertebral column provides fish with the
basic structural basis for swimming and there
is generally one vertebra per body segment
VERTEBRAL COLUMN -
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• Compared with the vertebral column, the skulls of fishes are much more variable
• Functions of the Skull:
• Entry point for food
• Entry point for water needed in respiration
• Site of major sensory organs
• A protective structure for the brain, gills, eyes, etc.
• The attachment site for many major muscle groups
• A streamlined entry point for forward swimming
THE SKULL:
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BREAK 4
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MUSCULAR SYSTEM
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• Red muscles, at low temperatures show:
1. increased capillary densities
2. increased mitochondrial densities
3. increased lipid droplet densities
TEMPERATURE AND RED
MUSCLES
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• Thicker than red ones
• Poorer blood supply
• Lack myoglobin and other red oxygen carrying pigments
• White muscle most useful for short bursts and more abundant
in medium active to slow fishes
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• Intermediate
• High velocities and very low speeds
• Some fishes will intermix muscle uses; others keep uses
separated
PINK MUSCLE
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LOCOMOTION IN FISH
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• To increase speed, a fish can increase the amplitude or number of tail beats.
• Water moves along the body as it undulates as result of flexing body muscles – when water is shed at posterior margin of caudal fin, it produces thrust
• The more udulating waves a fish can exert against the surrounding water and the faster and more exaggerated the waves are, the more power the fish has
LOCOMOTION CONTINUED
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SWIMMING METHODS
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Anguilliform
This form of swimming is characteristic of extreme
long-bodied fishes such as the eels. The whole
body is flexed in a wavelike motion. The
continuous dorsal-caudal-anal fins of these fish as
as fins on an oar.
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Carangiform
This type of swimming is an intermediate between
anguilliform and ostraciform. The body is moved in
a shallow wave, more so in the tail region.
Slower moving fishes swim in a subcarangiform
fashion
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Thunniform swimming is found in the fast,
continuous moving fishes such as tuna where the
large, lunate tail moves at a small amplitude but at
high speeds
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Ostraciform
These fishes have boxlike bodies and move the
caudal fin in a “sculling” motion. These fish do not
usually move quickly and depend on spines and/or
toxins for protection.
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