List Of Animals With Scales

The great white shark Carcharodon carcharias is first on our list of animals with scales and fins.

List of animals with scales. Print the lesson on animals body parts. The list includes crustaceans like lobsters and crabs insects like grasshoppers and beetles and arachnids like spiders and scorpions. If you were to observe these scales on the body of fish they would look like theyre embedded in the outer layer of the skin in a regular and overlapping fashion.

To print the lesson on the animals body parts right click on a white space and choose print. It is interesting to think about the lifestyle and habitat of a fish then look at its scales. Below we show you our complete list of 10 animals with scales pictures.

Reptile scales develop from the skin. Scales are a type of body covering that fish and reptiles have. To view any of the lessons below click on link.

As foolish as a calf. You can click on the printer icon just below and to the right of the contact us menu button at the top of the page. Placoid sharks and rays Cosmoid lungfishes and some fossil fishes Ganoid bichirs Bowfin paddlefishes gars sturgeons Cycloid and Ctenoid most bony fishes Different fishes different scalation.

The thin upper layer of these scales is made of bone while the lower layer is composed of connective tissue. Vertebrates belong to the phylum called Phylum Chordata. Fish are animals that live in water.

Their head holds a large mouth with numerous sharp teeth and irregular colorations on their scaleless skin which look a little like stains. Animals need scales because if they did not they would be very vulnerable. Please feel free to add more animal similes on the comment box.