What are Vertebrates

Study Vertebrates using Online Video

With this title, you'll examine the biological characteristics of tunicates, hagfish, sharks, stingrays, piranhas, scorpion fish, and others. Use these 2 online educational video titles to learn about and discuss the primitive chordates and those that have remained confined to aquatic environments. This section includes presentations on tunicates, lamprey, hagfish, sharks, rays, coelacanth, lungfish, ray-finned fish, sturgeon, paddlefish, gar, and bowfin, with extensive coverage of the modern bony fishes.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain an introduction to the subphylums Urochordata and Cephalochordata, and explore the three classes of fish: jawless fish, cartilaginous fish, and bony fish.
• Survey tunicates, lancelets, lampreys, sharks, stingrays, trout, salmon, pike, muskellunge, electric eels, piranhas, goldfish, catfish, sea horses, large mouth bass, and barracudas.
• Cite the scientific names of different orders of fish; identify fish species belonging to those orders; describe the habitats of selected protochordates and fish species; and discuss the diet and physical characteristics of selected species of fish.
• Examine the unusual adaptations of the lobe-finned fish Access a text supplement that provides concise, encyclopedic information on selected species of fish identified in the presentation.

• Biology > Study Of The Animal Kingdom > Vertebrates Urochordates Craniata And Fish
• Urochordates Craniata and Fish Part 1 (Runtime: 19:15)
• Urochordates Craniata and Fish Part 2 (Runtime: 15:55)