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Vertebrate Zoology Lab

Vertebrate Zoology Lab . On Card Name: Justin Montemarano Email: jmontema@kent.edu Psuedoname : Barzini Favorite Vertebrate: Trachemys scripta elegans Office Hours My office is CHH 48. Introduction to Ohio Fishes. Some fishes found in northeastern Ohio. Taxonomic Hierarchy.

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Vertebrate Zoology Lab

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  1. Vertebrate Zoology Lab • On Card • Name: Justin Montemarano • Email: jmontema@kent.edu • Psuedoname: Barzini • Favorite Vertebrate: Trachemysscriptaelegans • Office Hours • My office is CHH 48

  2. Introduction to Ohio Fishes Some fishes found in northeastern Ohio

  3. Taxonomic Hierarchy • Kingdom = Animalia • Phylum = Chordata • Subphylum = Vertebrata • 3 major classes: • Agnatha (hagfish & lamprey) • Chondrichthyes (shark, skates & rays) • Osteichthyes (bony fish)

  4. Class Agnatha • Order Petromyzontiformes • Lampreys: Family Petromyzontidae • Eel-like • Sucker-disc mouth • Parasitic and non-parasitic forms • Our collection: • Ichthyomyzonunicuspis (silver lamprey) • Lampetraaegyptera (least brook lamprey) • Petromyzonmarinus (sea lamprey) • Myxinesp. (Hagfish)

  5. Hagfish (not present in Ohio)Myxine sp.

  6. Silver Lamprey Ichthyomyzonunicuspis

  7. Least Brook Lamprey Lampetraaepyptera

  8. PetromyzonmarinusSea Lamprey Attached to Salvelinus namaycush (lake trout)

  9. Class Chondrichthyes • No fish in collection (do not occur in Ohio) • Sharks, skates, and rays

  10. Class Osteichthyes (bony fishes) • Mouth Position • Fin types and locations • Spines and rays • Operculum • Lateral line

  11. Order Acipenseriformes Family Acipenseridae Scaphirhynchus platorynchus(shovelnose sturgeon)

  12. Acipenser fulvescens(lake sturgeon) not in collection

  13. Family PolyodontidaePolyodon spathula(paddlefish) (not in collection)

  14. Order Amiiformes • Family Amiidae • Amia calva (bowfin)—do not have in collection

  15. Order Lepisosteiformes • Family Lepisosteidae (gars) • Lepisosteus osseus (longnose gar)

  16. Order Clupeiformes • Family Clupeidae (shad, herrings & sardines) • Dorosoma cepedianum (gizzard shad)

  17. Order SalmoniformesFamily Salmonidae Salmogairdneri (rainbow trout) -- in collection Crimson on opercle and down body Salmo trutta (brown trout) -- not in collection Large, dark spots Salvelinus fontinalis (brook trout) -- in collection Dark body, light spots, vermiculated dorsum

  18. Family UmbridaeUmbra limi (mudminnow)

  19. Family EsocidaeEsoxamericanus(Grass Pickerel)

  20. Order Cypriniformes • Family Cyprinidae (minnows) • Family Catostomidae (suckers & redhorses) • Family Ictaluridae (catfish/bullheads)

  21. Family Cyprinidae • Dorsal fin lacks spines or has only one specialized spine • No adipose fin • Dorsal fin generally has 8 rays

  22. Campostoma anomalum(central stoneroller)

  23. Carassius auratus(goldfish)

  24. Cyprinuscarpio(Common carp)

  25. Daces Clinostomus elongatus (redside dace) Large supraterminal mouth—no barbels Phoxinus erythrogaster (redbelly dace) Small terminal mouth—no barbels Rhinichthyesatratulus(western blacknose dace) Small subterminal mouth with small barbels and upper lip fused to snout - mustache

  26. Pimephales notatus (bluntnose minnow) Scales crowded & irregular on nape

  27. Ericymbabiccatus(silverjaw minnow)

  28. Nocomis micropogon(river chub)

  29. Semotilus atromaculatus(creek chub)

  30. Luxilus cornutus (common shiner) no barbels, upper sides with horizontal lines that do not converge Shiners Notemigonus crysoleucas (golden shiner) Scale-less keel behind pelvic fins, strongly curved lateral line

  31. Family Catostomidae • Sucker-shaped, subterminalmouth • No dorsal spines • Collection has 4 species • Catostomuscommersoni (white sucker) • Hypenteliumnigricans(northern hogsucker) • Minytremamelanops (spotted sucker) • Moxostomaerythrurum(golden redhorse)

  32. Catostomus commersoni(white sucker)

  33. Hypentelium nigricans(northern hogsucker)

  34. Minytrema melanops(spotted sucker)

  35. Family Ictaluridae • No scales on body • Well developed barbels (“whiskers”) on mouth • Pectoral and dorsal fins with single stiff spine • Adipose fine present

  36. Ameiurus natalis(yellow bullhead)

  37. Ameiurus nebulosus(brown bullhead)

  38. Ictalurus punctatus (channel catfish)

  39. Order Cyprinodontiformes • Family Gasterosteidae • Culaeainconstans(brook stickleback)

  40. Order Perciformes • Family Moronidae (temperate basses) • Family Centrarchidae (sunfish) • Family Percidae (perches—includes darters) • Family Gobiidae (gobies)

  41. Family Centrarchidae • Dorsal fin with spines and rays, usually not separate • Anal fin with 3 or more spines • Edge of opercle smooth (not serrated) • Collection has 11 species in 4 genera • Ambloplites (rock bass) • Lepomis (sunfish,bluegill) • Micropterus (bass) • Pomoxis (crappie)

  42. Ambloplites rupestris(rock bass)

  43. Genus Lepomis • Deep body (body depth goes into standard length less than 3 times) • Collection has 5 Lepomis species • Lepomis cyanellus (green sunfish) • Lepomis gibbosus (pumpkinseed sunfish) • Lepomis gulosus (warmouth) • Lepomis macrochirus (bluegill) • Lepoimis microlophus (redear sunfish) • Lepomis megalotis (longear sunfish)

  44. Lepomis cyanellus(green sunfish)

  45. Lepomis gibbosus(pumpkinseed sunfish)

  46. Lepomis gullosus(warmouth)

  47. Lepomis macrochirus(bluegill)

  48. Micropterus dolomieui (smallmouth bass)

  49. Micropterus salmoides (largemouth bass)

  50. Genus Pomoxis • < 4 anal fin spines • 4-9 dorsal fin spines • Large mouth • Collection has 2 species • Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) • Pomoxis annularis (white crappie)

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