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WFSC 2
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- 1Largemouth bassorder; perciformes
family; centrarchidae
name; Micropterus salmoides
- freshwater eating smaller fish, compresed body, large terminal mouth, upper jaw reaches past eye, ctenoid scales, lateral line present, homocercal caudal fin, dorsal fin with some spinous - 2Bluegillorder; perciformes
family; centrarchidae
name; Lepomis macrochirus
- freshwater fish eating smaller fish compressed body small mouth, ctenoid scales, lateral line on body, homocercal caudal fin
- fins with some spinous and some soft rayes, two black spots present
- 3dusky darterorder; periciformes
family; pericidae
name; Percina sciera
- freshwater carniverous eating small invertebrates, has tigerlike stripes on it, small fish compressed elongated body, lateral line on body, homocercal caudal fin
- fins have both soft and spinous rays,
- 4Slough darterorder; periciformes
family; pericidae
name; Etheostoma gracile
- freshwater carniverous fish feeding on vertebrates, compressed elongated body, terminal mouth, large eye high on the head, lateral line only reaching halfway down its body
- caudal fin homocercal and weakly forked, fins with spinous and soft rays, sexual dichromatism where males have stripes and females have a mottled pattern, teardrop below eye in both sexes
- 5freshwater drumorder; Perciformes
family; Sciaenidae
name; Aplodinotus grunniens
- marine and freshwater fish with large and compressed body, subterminal mouth, ctenoid scales, complete lateral line, caudal fin homocercal
-dorsal anal and pelvic fins with spinous and soft rays, dorsal and caudal fn have black markings
- 6rio grande or texas cichlidorder; Perciformes
family; Cichlidae
name; Herichtys cyanoguttatus
- freshwater animal deep compressed body, terminal mouth, two parts of lateral line, homocercal tunicate caudal fin, dorsal and anal fins spinous and soft
- males covered light blue spots, nuchal hump on head
- 7Hogchockerorder; Pleuronectiformes
family; achiridae
name; Trinectes maculatus
- fresh and brackish water eats insects, small oblong fish laterally compressed, asymetrical body both eyes on right side of head, ctenoid scale, lateral line, homocercal rounded fin,
-body covered with finger like cirri, olive brown body, non eyed side is white,
- 8Southern pufferorder; Tetraodontiformes
family; Tetraodontidae
name; Sphoeroides nephelus
-temperate and coastal areas, feeding on smaller fish, globular body large head, terminal mouth, body without scales but with pricks in belly
- homocercal caudal truncate fin, large gray spots of checkered pattern, inhale water to expand
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- Flashcards on WFSC 2, created by Brooke Saiter on 03/09/2018.
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- Brooke Saiter · Sep 2018
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