Lamprey Fish Anatomy
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Lamprey fish anatomy. Lampreys sometimes also called inaccurately lamprey eels are an ancient extant lineage of jawless fish of the order petromyzontiformes placed in the superclass. This page last updated 13 january 2012 by udo m. Savalli images and text c udo m. Fish anatomy is the study of the form or morphology of fishes.
It can be contrasted with fish physiology which is the study of how the component parts of fish. Lamprey is the common name for elongated eel like jawless fish comprising the family petromyzontidae characterized by a primitive vertebrae made of cartilage. Fish anatomy skeletal system. Their skeleton can be made of either bone bony fishes or cartilage cartilaginous fishes.
Bony fin rays. This page last updated 4 september 2009 by udo m. Savalli images and text c udo m. Fish excretory organs.
The primary excretory organ in fishes as in other vertebrates is the kidney. In fishes some excretion also takes place in the digestive. This work is meant to provide a guide to the freshwater fishes of iran. There are no modern keys to this fauna some available books are incomplete or.