APIIR Flashcards
Bottom feeders like suckers n sturgeons have _______ or ______ mouths?
Sub terminal or Inferior mouth
Superior mouths are found in ______?
Lie n wait
Eg. Of wait n lie predators
Grouper n lion fish
Lie n wait fishes capture food from _____?
Surface
_____$______ hv small mouths at the end of thin snout
Butterfly n pipe fishes
______ r capable of protruding the mouth to an exceptional distance to siphon in prey
Slipmouth( leognathids)
In which,the lower jaw projects into the beak with the mouth opening above it?
In half beaks ( surface feeding fishes)
Name types of mouth
Inferior Superior Terminal Sub terminal Protrucible mouth Mouth of butterfish
Jaws are elongated in _____?
Garfish ( needle fish)
Only upper jaw is elongated in…
Paddle fish
Only lower jaw is elongated in …
Half beaks
Sharks have large mouth,big n sharp teeth.. T/F?
T
Beak like structure present in?
Parrot fish
Teeth present on tongue is known as…
Glossohyal
______ hv strong canine teeth n feeds on shelled invertebrates.
Wolf eel
In carps n suckers, only _____ teeth are present.
Pharyngeal
Numerous , short, fine n pointed teeth
Cardiforms like cat fish perches sea bass
Elongated cardiforms ones
Villiform like needle fishes lion fishes
Dog tooth like elongated n subsonic all. Straight or curved adapted for piercing and holding.
Canine teeth like moray eel
Sharply edged cutting teeth
Incisor like sea breams and parrot fish
Flattened teeth for crushing n girding, characters of bottom-dwelling skates, chimaeras and drums
Molariforms
Suctorial or hold fast lips..
Loach fish
In fishes with suckers, lips are____ & ____ or _______.
Mobile & plicate(having folds) or papilaose( having tufts or skin or papillae)
In hill stream fishes, lips function as…
Hold fast eg loaches n cat fishes
In which, buccopharynx is armed with strong teeth even the Gill tankers are tooth like?
Carnivores n predatory fishes ( catfish , Muriel , freshwater shark )
In omnivores , pharyngeal pads are________ situated in the roof of the pharynx.
Muscular pads
Phyrngeal pads are situated in does ally at the entrance of oesophagus.
Herbivores
In ________, pad helps in removing excess water from ingesting food.
Cypriots cardio