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anatomy, 16-17 V
attacks, 44-45 T
bull shark, 45
catshark, 24-25 tadpole: See frog venom: See poison
excessive fishing, 88 tail fin, 22-23 Vietnam, 4-5
great white shark, 44-45 tetrapod, 62-63 viperfish
lemon shark, 45 thornback ray, 14, 43 Sloane's viperfish, 54
sense of smell, 14, 44 threadfin butterfly fish, 27 vocal sac, 64
swimming, 24, 25 tiger salamander, 65 volcano, 51
tail, 22 Tiktaalik (fossil), 62
teeth, 45 toad, 64-65
whale shark, 30, 89 common toad, 65 W
Shubin, Neil, 62 Costa Rican variable harlequin toad, 73, 91
Siamese fighting fish, 22, 26 golden toad, 90
Silurian Period, 8 habitat destruction, 90-91 weedy sea dragon, 40
skate fish, 42 Mayan mythology, 82 West African lungfish, 58
common skate, 89 movement, 66-67 whale shark, 30, 89
Sloane's viperfish, 54 Peru stubfoot toad, 91 white-lipped tree frog, 67
smooth newt, 79 poisonous, 72-73 whitetail damselfish, 27
snowflake moray, 57 reproduction, 68-69 wrasse, 26
sonar technology, 85 Surinam toad, 69 humphead wrasse, 88
South American lungfish, 58 See also frog
species decline, 88-91 toxin: See poison
sports fishing, 86-87 tree frog X-Z
spot-fin porcupinefish, 36-37 European tree frog, 5
spotted salamander, 90 white-lipped tree frog, 67
spotted scorpionfish, 29, 35, 52 trident, 82 Xochimilco, Lake (Mexico), 74
sturgeon Trieste bathyscape, 51 Xólotl, 75, 82
feeding, 31 triggerfish yellow-banded poison dart frog, 73
Persian, 88 clown triggerfish, 27 yellow-crowned butterflyfish, 88
sucker (anatomy), 30 trout yellow-headed jawfish, 33
suckerfish: See remora brook trout, 87 yellow tang, 37
sunfish brown trout, 16-17 Yukon River (North America)
ocean sunfish, 13 rainbow trout, 86-87 salmon, 5
Surinam toad, 69 tube-worm, tentacles, 55 zooplankton, 30
swim bladder, 13 tuskfish, harlequin, 27
swimming
most fish, 13, 24-25
rays, 42
seahorse, 40 U
symbiosis, 30
upside-down catfish, 24
Urodela (amphibian), 65