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8/27/13

Ichthyology Course Objectives BIOL 530, 530L, 529J 1. gain a broad understanding of the biology of

2. be able to identify major taxonomic groups of fishes Dr. Mark Steele Magnolia Hall 4100 3. be able to identify most local fishes Office Hours: Mon & Wed 11-12 or by appointment 4. understand how to apply a broad array of field and laboratory techniques to the study of fishes Justin Hackitt Magnolia Hall 4103 Office Hours: Mon 10-11 or by appointment

Format of Course Text and other Reading

1. Lecture Textbook: • key concepts and theories • The Diversity of Fishes (Helfman, Collette, Facey, & Bowen) • start with kinds of fishes, then to how they work, then to their

behavior & ecology Lab/Field: • Guide to the Coastal Marine Fishes of 2. Lab & Field (participation mandatory) (California . Bull. 157) (Miller and Lea) • hands on experience with fishes in lab & field or • elaborate on concepts from lecture • A Field Guide to the Pacific Coast Fishes • learn common methods for studying fishes (Eschmeyer, Herald, and Hamman)

Research Papers: Please read all assigned Downloadable from the website reading before lecture

(See online schedule) Recommended Books: Several -- see syllabus

Grading Attendance & General Information

Midterm Exam 15% 1. This class will be demanding, but fun Final Exam 20% • Exams will be short answer 2. Field activities will usually extend beyond hours listed in the catalog • Final will be cumulative Lecture Quizzes 5% 3. Attendance at all field & lab studies is mandatory 4. There will be no make-ups for exams or other work Lab Practical 1 15% Field Study & Lab: 5. Late work is graded down 10% per day late Lab Practical 2 15% (530L & 592J) 6. If you’re not up to the demands, you should carefully consider whether you want to take this class Lab Report 8% 20% of your grade will be based on participation Research Paper 10% Skull & Skeleton Prep 2% Field/Lab Study Q sets 10% Total 100%

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I. What is a fish? What’s the difference between “fish” and “fishes”? II. Diversity III. IV. Introduction to major groups of fishes

What is a fish? I. What is a fish?

Typical, but not diagnostic features of fish:

Feature Exceptions 1. aquatic walking , mudskippers, 2. scales , , etc. (& reptiles have scales, too) A stupid question? 3. fins eels and some others 4. amphibians have gills early in development 5. ectothermic some , , & (amphibians & reptiles are ectotherms, too) 6. simple heart African lungfish 7. neuromast cells some salamanders and ascidians also have them

not always aquatic So what is a fish?

Generally: • aquatic warm blooded • cold blooded (poikilothermic) • • with scales no scales • with fins no fins no vertebrae • with • with gills & 2-chamber heart

But lots of exceptions...

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II. Diversity: Why so many exceptions? ≈ 30,000 Because “fish” is used to describe members of many ≈ 250 new species described /year separate evolutionary lines: ≈ 50% of all are fishes

- remnants of ancient groups (e.g., ) - old, but still successful lines (e.g., sharks and rays) - new successful lines (e.g., bony fishes)

Vanderhorstia steelei

The “average” fish is a bony fish Fish Diversity

• ≈ 1/2 of all vertebrate species 28,000 Fishes VS. Total species: 27,977 (32,500 expected) • 6,300 Amphibians (3 orders) • 8,200 Reptiles (4 orders) Breakdown: Jawless Fishes: 85 species • 10,000 Birds (29 orders) Sharks, Skates, Rays: 970 species • 5,400 Mammals (29 orders) Bony Fishes: 26,891 species • 515 different families of fishes (extant) • 62 extant orders!

based on Nelson 2006

Diversity in size:

Fish live almost any place there is water: • hot springs (40˚ C) — subzero (-2˚ C) • hypersaline water (3x seawater) — mineral-free water matures around 8 mm • high O — almost no O Whale (Rhincodon typus) 2 2 reaches 59 ft. est. 90,000 lbs • low pH (4) — high pH (>10) • turbid waters (0 vis.) — crystal-clear waters • high light (e.g., shallow coral reefs) — no light (e.g., caves) • deep (-7,000 m) — high altitude lakes (+4,000 m) • temporary (pools and streams) — stable (deep open )

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Higher diversity & density in freshwater : Heaviest bony fish: Mola mola

10 ft, 4928 lbs. Longest bony fish: % of total # individuals/species % of Acipenser huso () species water 24 ft, 3250 lbs. volume Marine 58 1010 97 Freshwater 41 108 0.01 Diadromous 1 ?

(Freshwater) – Arapaima gigas, 4 orders of magnitude more marine water than freshwater: arapaima - 8 ft, 325 lbs. • but nearly same number of species ⇒ so, much higher density of spp. (≈ 7,500x) Lepisosteus • but only 2 orders of magnitude more individuals ⇒ so, much higher spatula, alligator density of individuals (≈ 75x) in freshwater - 10 ft, 300 lbs. Why?

Most marine fishes are found in the coastal zone III. Taxonomy uses nomenclature

• International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

Distribution of Marine Fishes (58% of all fishes) • Binomial, (or trinomial if a subspecies) – based on and species • coastal zone (<200 m): 78% (44% of all fishes) – e.g., Thunnus thynnus, or Thunnus thynnus thynnus • open ocean: 13% • Type specimens and type localities • surface layer (epipelagic): 1% – single specimen upon which description of species • deepwater (deepwater pelagic): 5% is based: the holotype • bottom (deepwater benthic): 7%

• Authority of the species: – author of first description follows species name

Taxonomy = science of describing and Categories are like directories and subdirectories classifying organisms There are many sub- and super- directories Taxonomic Unit Carl Linnaeus Division Teleostei ⇒ ⇒ Subdivision Clupeomorpha ⇒ Units of class: Mnemonic: e.g. bluefin ⇒ Kingdom Kings Animalia Suborder Clupeoidei Percoidei Scombroidei Family Clupeidae Percidae Scombridae Phylum Play Chordata Subfamily Clupeinae Percinae Scombrinae Class Chess Tribe Clupeini Percini Scombrini Genus Clupea Perca Scomber Order On Perciformes Species harengus flavescens scombrus Family Fine Scombridae subspecies harengus Author Linnaeus Mitchell Linnaeus Genus Grained Thunnus

Species Sand thynnus

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Systematics • Goal of cladistics is to find shared derived characters • Study of evolutionary relationships among – groups with shared derived characters form monophyletic organisms groups or – reconstruction of evolutionary relationships – based on characters shared by a group • Monophyletic groups • Morphological characters – groups containing an ancestor and all its descendants • DNA sequences • Polyphyletic groups – multiple origins of a group, not having a recent common • Cladistics ancestor – a defined method for systematics • Parsimony – also known as Phylogenetic Systematics – selection of hypothesis that explains the data in the simplest or most economical manner

Some of the characters used in constructing cladograms for “fish”

DORSAL

Gill Cover () Lateral line ANTERIOR

Premaxilla POSTERIOR POSTERIOR Dentary Bone (Lower Mandible) Each hatchmark along the line indicates a shared derived character. Branchiostegal rays Note where the “feathers” character is. VENTRAL

Some of the characters used in constructing cladograms for “fish” IV. Introduction to major groups of fishes caudal fin

Spiracle upper jaw (In Phylogenetic Order)

lower jaw

external slits (no operculum)

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Agnathans, ≈ 110 sp.

Class Cartilaginous Fishes

Sharks ≈ 400 spp. Skates and Rays ≈ 530 spp.

Chimaeras ≈ 33 spp. Class (Lobe-Finned Fishes)

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Coelacanths, 2 spp , 6 species

Sturgeons and , 27 spp.

Class Actinopterygii Ray-finned Fishes

Gars, 7 spp. The , 1 species

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Teleosts Bonytongues ~ 220 spp.

Subdivision • “Perfect bone”

• rest of fishes after this slide

Eels, Tarpons, , etc. ~ 900 spp ~ 360 spp. Subdivision (). (Subdivision Clupeomorpha)

Minnows, Suckers, Characins, , and Knifefishes ~8,000 spp. Subdivision Euteleostei (Superorder:)

• 9 Superorders • everything after this slide

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Smelts, , and Pikes ~370 spp. Weird deepsea fishes ~ 1300 spp. Superorder: Five Superorders: Cyclosquamata Scopelomorpha Lampridiomorpha Polymixiomorpha

Cods, , , Cusk Eels, Etc., ~ 1,300 spp. Superorder: “SPINY RAYED FISHES” (Superorder: )

• ADVANCED • 14,797 species (the rest) • 3 Series – Mugilomorpha – Atherinomorpha –

Silversides, needlefishes, flyingfishes, killifishes, livebearers, etc. Mullets ~ 70 species ~ 1,500 spp. Series: Atherinomorpha (Series: Mugilomorpha)

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Squirrelfishes, ~ 140 spp. (Order: ) SERIES PERCOMORPHA

• 9 Orders • 245 Families • 13,173 Species

Sticklebacks, Seahorses, etc., ~ 275 spp. Order:

Mail-Cheeked Fishes ~ 1,500 species Order: Order Perciformes

• largest order of vertebrates! • 20 suborders • 160 families • 10,033 species

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Suborder Percoidei ~ 3,200 spp. Suborder Labroidei ~ 2,200 spp.

Cichlids ~ Croakers ~ 270 spp. 1350 spp.

Darters ~ 200 spp.

Wrasses ~453 Seabasses ~ 475 spp. spp. Sunfishes ~ 31 spp.

Suborder Gobioidei ~ 2,200 spp. Suborder Blennioidei ~ 800 spp Gobies ~1950 spp.

Sleepers ~ 155 spp.

Suborder Scombroidei ~ 150 spp. , 700 spp. Order Pleuronectiformes

Barracudas ~ 21 spp.

Tunas and ~ 51 spp.

Billfishes ~ 11 species

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Puffers, , Ocean Sunfishes ~ 360 spp. Order

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