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1 Fish with a tolerance for a wide range of salinity levels.
Some Euryhaline Fish Fish with a tolerance for a wide range of salinity levels.

2 Fresh water

3 . Gambusia/ mosquitofish
Named after the Cuban Spanish term for “useless”, this live-bearing freshwater fish is renowned for helping control insect populations. It also demonstrates sexual dimorphism.

4 Gonopodium: modified anal fin for depositing milt
Large abdomen with gravid spot

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6 Can consume up to 167% of body weight in one day!!!
Sometimes called “larvivorous” Can consume up to 167% of body weight in one day!!!

7 What’s for lunch? 367 pounds of burritos!

8 Reproduction possibilities in the animal kingdom:
Oviparous (egg laying) or Viviparous (live birth)

9 ovoviviparous Emerging baby

10 Temperate brackish water

11 Three-spine stickleback Temperate zone brackish water fish
Three-spine stickleback Temperate zone brackish water fish. Sometimes with armor plates. No membrane connecting anterior dorsal spines.

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13 Tropical brackish water

14 Black molly Sometimes sold in pet stores as an easy freshwater fish for beginners, this is actually a tropical brackish water fish.

15 Sailfin molly

16 Bumblebee goby Tropical brackish water fish popular with aquarists

17 Smallest vertebrates in the world

18 Fused pelvic fin: modified into a sucker

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20 Archer fish tropical brackish water fish with a remarkable spitting ability

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23 Marine (but near a coast)

24 Atlantic menhaden The adults of this commercially important fish spawn offshore and the larvae drift into estuaries to grow.

25 Kind of a generic fish

26 Tidepool sculpin Can withstand wide changes in their environment within the course of a day.

27 What could happen here?

28 Super-saline habitat

29 An example of an EXTREMOPHILE
Pup fish Remarkable little fish that lives in hot super-saline pools in the desert

30 Devil’s Hole in Death Valley

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34 And now a little about Elodea

35 Elodea CELL WALL CHLOROPLASTS: organelles used for photosynthesis
VACUOLE: water storing organelle CELL WALL


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