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1 Name: Date: Worksheet 2: Fish Morphology Fish Morphology, Part 1: Instructions: Fill in the table on fish cross-sectional body shape. Name Example Characteristics Ship Habitat Fusiform Streamlined. Fast-swimmer. Often in watercolumn. Water column above (Ex: Yellow-fin tuna) Quick speeds for short distances. Not always moving because use bursts of speed. Around and in (Ex: Tautog) Depressed (Ex: Gulf flounder) Swim along bottom like a flying bird. These are bottom-dwellers. Bottom of ship or nearby sand. Anguilliform Not good swimmers. Ribbon shaped. Crevices in ships. (Ex: Conger eel)

2 Instructions: Fill in the table on fish caudal fin shape. Fish Morphology, Part 2: Caudal Fin Shape Name Example Characteristics Ship Habitat Short bursts of speed. High Lots of drag. Around and in (Ex: Queen Angelfish) Truncated (Ex: Yellowedge Grouper) Short bursts of speed. Good Not as much drag as rounded. These are usually bottomdwellers. Bottom of (Ex: Sheepshead) Good speed over longer distances. Good Less drag than truncated. Around and in Lunate (Ex: Blue runner) High speed over long distances. Poor Rigid with less surface area and less drag. Water column above

3 Fish Morphology, Part 3: NC Ships Instructions: Indicate the morphological characteristics of each fish species. Use your understanding of morphology to decide where each fish would live on a Fish Spottail pinfish (Diplodus holbrooki) Caudal Fin Shape Ship Habitat Schools around Greater Amberjack (Seriola dumerili) Fusiform Lunate Water column above Summer Flounder (Paralichthys denatus) Depressed Sand around Tomtate (Haemulon aurolineatum) Schools around structure Oyster Toadfish (Opsanus tau) Hides in ship

4 Gag Grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis) Truncate Hides in ship Bottom, including sand around Fusiform Lunate Water column above Truncate Hides in ship Anguilliform N/A Hides in ship Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) Round Scad (Decapterus punctuatus) Belted Sandfish (Serranus subligarius) Goldentail Moray (Gymnothorax miliaris) Lesson Plan -- Ships of NC: Where do the fish live? -- Avery B Paxton

5 Name: ANSWER KEY Date: Worksheet 2: Fish Morphology Fish Morphology, Part 1: Instructions: Fill in the table on fish cross-sectional body shape. Name Example Characteristics Ship Habitat Fusiform Streamlined. Fast-swimmer. Often in watercolumn. Water column above (Ex: Yellow-fin tuna) Quick speeds for short distances. Not always moving because use bursts of speed. Around and in (Ex: Tautog) Depressed (Ex: Gulf flounder) Swim along bottom like a flying bird. These are bottomdwellers. Bottom of ship or nearby sand. Anguilliform Not good swimmers. Ribbon shaped. Crevices in ships. (Ex: Conger eel)

6 Fish Morphology, Part 2: Caudal Fin Shape Instructions: Fill in the table on fish caudal fin shape. Caudal Fin Shape Name Example Characteristics Ship Habitat Short bursts of Around speed. High and in Lots of drag. (Ex: Queen Angelfish) Truncated (Ex: Yellowedge Grouper) Short bursts of Bottom of speed. Good Not as much drag as rounded. These are usually bottomdwellers. Good speed over longer distances. Good Less drag than truncated. Around and in High speed over long distances. Poor Rigid with less surface area and less drag. Water column above (Ex: Sheepshead) Lunate (Ex: Blue runner) Lesson Plan -- Ships of NC: Where do the fish live? -- Avery B Paxton

7 Fish Morphology, Part 3: NC Ships Instructions: Indicate the morphological characteristics of each fish species. Use your understanding of morphology to decide where each fish would live on a Fish Spottail pinfish (Diplodus holbrooki) Caudal Fin Shape Ship Habitat Schools around Greater Amberjack (Seriola dumerili) Fusiform Lunate Water column above Summer Flounder (Paralichthys denatus) Depressed Sand around Tomtate (Haemulon aurolineatum) Schools around structure Oyster Toadfish (Opsanus tau) Hides in ship

8 Gag Grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis) Truncate Hides in ship Bottom, including sand around Fusiform Lunate Water column above Truncate Hides in ship Anguilliform N/A Hides in ship Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) Round Scad (Decapterus punctuatus) Belted Sandfish (Serranus subligarius) Goldentail Moray (Gymnothorax miliaris) Lesson Plan -- Ships of NC: Where do the fish live? -- Avery B Paxton

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