Fish and Fishing Vocabulary

Question 1

Vertebral Column

Answer 1

also known as the backbone or spine, is part of the axial skeleton. The vertebral column is the defining characteristic of a vertebrate

Question 2

Neural crest

Answer 2

cells are a temporary group of cells unique to vertebrates that arise from the embryonic ectoderm cell layer

Question 3

Fin

Answer 3

fish swimming parts

Question 4

Scale

Answer 4

vary enormously in size, shape, structure, and extent, ranging from strong and rigid armour plates in fishes such as shrimpfishes and boxfishes, to microscopic or absent in fishes such as eels and anglerfishes.

Question 5

Operculum

Answer 5

a structure that closes or covers an aperture, in particular.

Question 6

Atrium

Answer 6

heart has one atrium and one ventricle

Question 7

Ventricle

Answer 7

a hollow part or cavity in an organ, in particular.

Question 8

Nephron

Answer 8

is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney.

Question 9

Lateral line

Answer 9

The lateral line is a system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, mainly fish, used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water.

Question 10

Spawning

Answer 10

release or deposit eggs.

Question 11

Swim bladder

Answer 11

The swim bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of a fish to control its buoyancy, and thus to stay at the current water depth without having to waste energy in swimming

Question 12

Jawless fish

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Agnatha is a superclass of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, consisting of both present and extinct species. The group excludes all vertebrates with jaws, known as gnathostomes

Question 13

Cartilaginous fish

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Chondrichthyes is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes: they are jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone

Question 14

Bony fish

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popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage

Question 15

Devonian Period

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The oldest known vascular plants in the Northern Hemisphere are from the Devonian Period

Question 16

Bowfin/Dogfish

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Bowfin are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, cypress trout and choupique.

Question 17

Brown Bullhead

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The brown bullhead is a fish of the Ictaluridae family that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead and yellow bullhead

Question 18

Brown Trout

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is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally.

Question 19

Burbot/Eelpout

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The burbot or bubbot is the only gadiform freshwater fish. Also known as mariah, freshwater ling, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod and eelpout, the burbot is closely related to the marine common ling and the cusk

Question 20

Channel Catfish

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Channel catfish is North America’s most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska,and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a “channel cat”

Question 21

Common Carp

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The common carp is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.

Question 22

Crappie

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The crappies are a genus, Pomoxis, of North American freshwater fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae. Both species in this genus are popular game fish.

Question 23

Flathead Catfish

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The flathead catfish, also called the mudcat, flatty, or shovelhead cat, is a large species of North American freshwater catfish. It is the only species of the genus Pylodictis.

Question 24

Lake Sturgeon

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The lake sturgeon, also called rock sturgeon, is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon.

Question 25

Lake Trout

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Lake trout is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, lake char, touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean

Question 26

Largemouth Bass

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The largemouth bass is a freshwater gamefish in the sunfish family, a species of black bass native to North America

Question 27

Long-nose Gar

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The longnose gar is a primitive ray-finned fish of the gar family. It is also known as the needlenose gar

Question 28

Muskellunge

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The muskellunge, also known as muskelunge, muscallonge, milliganong, or maskinonge, is a species of large, relatively uncommon freshwater fish native to North America. The muskellunge is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae

Question 29

Northern Pike

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The northern pike, known simply as a pike in Britain, Ireland, most of Canada, and most parts of the United States, is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox. They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere.

Question 30

Rainbow Trout

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The rainbow trout is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America

Question 31

Sauger

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The sauger is a freshwater perciform fish of the family Percidae which resembles its close relative the walleye. They are members of the largest vertebrate order, Perciformes. They are the most migratory percid species in North America

Question 32

Sheepshead

Answer 32

Sheepshead or Sheephead is a trick-taking card game related to the Skat family of games. It is the Americanized version of a card game that originated in Central Europe in the late 18th century under the German name Schafkopf.

Question 33

Smallmouth Bass

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that lives in clear rivers and lakes and is bronze green above and lighter below -

Question 34

Smelt

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Smelts are a family of small fish, Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They are also known as freshwater smelts or typical smelts to distinguish them from the related Argentinidae, Bathylagidae, and Retropinnidae

Question 35

Sunfish

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A nest-builder that tends to be more solitary than other members of the sunfish family

Question 36

Walleye

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Walleye is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European pikeperch.

Question 37

White Sucker

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The white sucker is a freshwater Cypriniform fish inhabiting the upper Midwest and Northeast in North America, but is also found as far south as Georgia and New Mexico in the south and west.

Question 38

Yellow Bullhead

Answer 38

The yellow bullhead is a species of bullhead catfish that is a ray-finned fish that lacks scales

Question 39

Yellow Perch

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The yellow perch, commonly referred to as perch, is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America. The yellow perch was described in 1814 by Samuel Latham Mitchill from New York