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PHYLUM CHORDATA notochord dorsal, hollow nerve tube gill slits post anal tail
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Two Invertebrate Chordates Urochordates –sea squirts or tunicates Cephalochordates –lancelets or amphioxus
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VERTEBRATES Possess backbones – replaces the notochord
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Jawless Fish – Class Agnatha hagfish lamprey
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Cartilagenous Fish – Class Chondrichthyes skates, rays and sharks
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Class Chondrichthyes
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Cartilagenous Fish – Class Chondrichthyes skeletons made of tough elastic cartilage negatively buoyant some of the active sharks must swim to breathe
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Bony Fish – Class Osteichthyes most numerous and successful of all vertebrates
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Bony Fish – Class Osteichthyes swim bladders countercurrent exchange operculum body shape effects the efficiency of movement
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Amphibians not found in marine environments
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Marine Reptiles Sea turtles, sea snakes, marine iguanas, marine crocodiles
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Figure 9.05 Marine iguana – 1 of 2 marine reptiles (other = crocodile)
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Marine Reptiles ectothermic covered with scales breathe air with lungs, have specialized salt glands to excrete excess salt taken in from seawater
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Marine Birds Class Aves Albatrosses, pelicans, gulls, terns, puffins and penguins are endotherms, also have salt secreting glands
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Marine Mammals mammary glands hair endothermic streamlined bodies
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Marine Mammals breathe air using lungs modified respiratory & circulatory system system osmotic adaptations
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Marine Mammals Cetaceans –porpoises, dolphins and whales
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Humpback Whale
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Beluga Whale
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Bottlenose Dolphin
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Marine Mammals There are 3 groups –#1 Pinnipeds (sea lions, seals and walruses)
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Elephant Seals
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Figure 9.11
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Marine Mammals #2 Sirenia –manatees- only herbivorous marine mammal
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Marine Mammals #3 Carnivora –seals, sea lions, walruses, sea otters and polar bears
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