EVOLUTION OF FISH

JAWLESS FISHES

Agnatha
• have paired gill pouches and
pineal eye
• Example: cyclostones(hagfish),
conodonts, ostracoderms
PLACODERMS

• Have heavy bony plates

• Possessed true teeth contrary
• Example: Lunaspis, Dunkleosteus
 CARTILAGINOUS
FISHES

• Skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone

• Example: rays, sharks
RAY-FIN FISHES

Actinopterygii(Chondrostei)
• Have cartilaginous ganoid
• Dominant on Paleozoic, then declined
• Example: paddlefish, sturgeon
RAY-FIN FISHES

Actinopterygii(Holostei)
• Have bony ganid
• Dominant in Mesozoic, then declined
• Example: paddlefish, sturgeon
RAY-FIN FISHES

Actinopterygii(Teleostei)
• Higher bony fish, Common modern fish
• Have fully movable maxilla and
premaxilla (which form the biting surface
of the upper jaw)
• having fully symmetrical tails
• Examle: salmon, catfish
LOBE-FIN FISHES

Sarcopterygii(Crossopterygii)
• Ancestial to first amphibian

• It is thought to be extincted until

coelacanth is found in 1939
• Example: coelacanth(Latimeria)
LOBE-FIN FISHES

Sarcopterygii(Dipnoi)
• Fish that have lung modified from swim
ladder
• Dominant on Paleozoic, then declined
• Example: lungfish
ACONTHODII

• Sharing features with both

bony fish and cartilaginous fish
• Their epidermis was covered
with tiny rhomboid platelets
like the scales of holosteans
• Examples: Climatiiformes,
Ischnacanthiformes