3. Superclass- Pisces
General characters
• Paired pectoral and pelvic fins
• Respiration by gills
• Heart 2 chambered
• Poikilothermic
• Lateral line system
• Cranial nerves 10 pairs
• Study of fishe- Ichthyology
• Body covered with scales mostly
4. Class- placodermii
• Bony armour/plate skinned
• Jaws
• Extinct class
• Two order
• 1 Arthrodiriformes
• 2 Antiarchiformes
8. class-Chondrichtyes
• Also called elasmobranchi
• Operculum=gill cover absent
• Cartilagenous endoskeleton
• Heterocercal tail
• Pelvic fins with clasper in male
• Skin with placoid scales
• Mouth on ventral side
• Cones absent
• Ampullae of lorenzini present
• Cloaca present
11. Order-Rajiformes
• Also called
hypotremata
• Body dorso ventrally
flattened
• 5 pair of gill slits
ventral
• Large pectoral fin
• Spiracle large
• Example- trygon(sting
ray)
12. Subclass-Holocephali
• No spiracle
• Single gill opening on
either side covered by
fleshy operculum
• Isocercal tail
• Single nasal opening
• Example-
chimaera(hydrolagus)
13. Class-Osteichtyes
• Bony endoskeleton
• Gills not more than 4 pairs
• operculum=gill cover present
• Homocercal or diphycercal or prptocercal tail
• Terminal mouth
• Cloaca absent
• Swim bladder present
• Cycloid or ctenoid or ganoid scale
• Cones present
16. Order-Crossopterygii
• Caudal fin 3 lobed
• Living fossil
• Lobe-finned fishes
• Example- latimeria
17. Order-Dipnoi
• Also called lung fishes
• protocercal tail
• Air bladder lung like
• Breath on land by air bladder which acts
as lungs
• Example- protopterus(african lung fish)
38. Order-Tetraodontiformes
• Inflate with
swallowing water
• Neurotoxin
tetrodotoxin in internal
body parts and skin
• Example-
tetraodon(globe
fish/puffer fish)