Across
- 3. used to maintain and control buoyancy.
- 4. cause the appearance of the animal to merge into its background
- 5. a structure that closes or covers an aperture.
- 11. functions to break up the fishlike outline. This can be done with stripes, bars, or spot patterns
- 13. The ova of these fish develop by feeding on the yolk.
- 14. migrating down rivers to the sea to spawn
- 15. a group of primitive jawless vertebrates which includes the lampreys
- 17. stacked guanine plates that create 2 dimensional bragg mirrors
- 18. the final larval stage of certain mollusks, having two ciliated flaps for swimming and feeding.
- 20. the embryo is attached to and nourished by the mother’s body
Down
- 1. an aquatic mollusk that has a compressed body enclosed within a hinged shell, such as oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops.
- 2. A stage in the life cycle of a veliger that is able to crawl using its foot.
- 6. a class of fishes that includes those with a cartilaginous skeleton
- 7. migrating up rivers from the sea to spawn.
- 8. a red pigment that stores oxygen
- 9. a class of fishes that includes those with a bony skeleton.
- 10. a visible line along the side of a fish consisting of a series of sense organs which detect pressure and vibration.
- 12. cells that produce color
- 16. bringing forth live young that have developed inside the body of the parent
- 19. Attached oyster larvae