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Body Shape: Fusiform Depressed

The document discusses different body shapes, tail shapes, and mouth positions in fish and how these adaptations relate to their swimming abilities and feeding behaviors. Streamlined and laterally compressed body shapes help reduce drag and increase maneuverability while elongated bodies aid movement through rocky areas. Terminal, inferior, and superior mouth positions influence whether fish are predators that seize prey or bottom feeders that scavenge along the seafloor.

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Body Shape: Fusiform Depressed

The document discusses different body shapes, tail shapes, and mouth positions in fish and how these adaptations relate to their swimming abilities and feeding behaviors. Streamlined and laterally compressed body shapes help reduce drag and increase maneuverability while elongated bodies aid movement through rocky areas. Terminal, inferior, and superior mouth positions influence whether fish are predators that seize prey or bottom feeders that scavenge along the seafloor.

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Body Shape

Fusiform
Depressed
This streamline shape reduces drag and
Being flattened from top to bottom makes
requires a minimum amount of energy
it easier for fish to live on the bottom,
to swim.
where they can hide and feed.

Laterally Compressed
Elongated
Flattened side to side allows for greater
A snake like body allows for easy movement
maneuverability with quick burst of speed
through coral and rocky openings.
and easy turns.

Mouth Position
A terminal mouth is located An inferior mouth opens Mouth opens upward, fish
at the end of the fishes head. downward like most sharks. with a superior mouth hide
Fast swimming predators have Some fish use inferior mouths on the bottom and seize prey
terminal mouths to feed on bottom dwellers. that swim above it.

Caudal Fins
Many continuously swimming fish continuous caudal fins (dorsal, caudal, and anal fins attached)
have forked caudal fins are able to swim in and around cracks and crevices.

Fish with truncate or rounded lunate caudal fins tend to be the fastest fishes and
caudal fins are usually strong, but maintain a rapid speed for long durations.
slow, swimmers.
Directions: Select a fish and sketch it below. Make special note of the position of its mouth, body and tail shape.
Using the guide on the front answer the following questions about your fish.
1. What is the shape of the body? ______________________________________
How does their shape help them move? _______________________________
2. What shape is the caudal (tail) fin?___________________________________
What does that shape tell you about their swimming habits? ________________
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3. What type of mouth does your fish have? ______________________________
What does that tell you about their feeding habits? _______________________
_______________________________________________________________

Directions: Observe your fish for 3 minutes. Mark the path that your fish takes around the aquarium.

Directions: Describe what you observed. ______________________________________________________________


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