Fishes
Across
- 6. producing young by means of eggs which are hatched within the body of the parent
- 7. a method of camouflage in which an animal's coloration is darker on the upper side and lighter on the underside of the body.
- 8. a form of discoloration that is used to disguise an animal's shape
- 12. bringing forth live young that have developed inside the body of the parent.
- 14. a gas-filled sac present in the body of many bony fishes, used to maintain and control buoyancy.
- 16. a sensory organ of fishes and larval or aquatic amphibians, typically forming part of the lateral line system
- 17. the word for the tiniest form of shellfish that has settled onto the place where it will live out its life
- 18. A stage in the life cycle of a veliger when it is able to crawl using its foot.
- 19. bony fish
Down
- 1. an iron- and oxygen-binding protein found in the skeletal muscle tissue of vertebrates in general and in almost all mammals.
- 2. jawless fish
- 3. group of fish is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner
- 4. migrating from fresh water to saltwater to breed
- 5. cartilaginous fish
- 9. an aquatic mollusk that has a compressed body enclosed within a hinged shell, such as oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops.
- 10. migrating from saltwater to freshwater to breed
- 11. a structure that covers the gills
- 13. the final larval stage of certain mollusks, having two ciliated flaps for swimming and feeding.
- 15. system of tactile sense organs that detect movements and pressure changes in the water
- 20. any group of fish that stay together for social reasons