Children's Activity...

[cbianco]

Hey All

I need some help. I am doing a children's classroom activity naming the body parts on a fish. I would like to describe a powder blue tang.

I am mostly confused about the lower fins. The upper fins are the dorsal fins (I know this much) but is the lower fin the anal fin or the pelvic fin. I ask this since is seems as if the tangs only have one lower fin.

I don't keep fish in my aquarium only corals and inverts so I never have taken the time to study fish and their body parts.

Could someone help me identify the body parts of a tang.

Thanks

Christopher

[Ping]

http://www.ncfisheries.net/kids/fishparts.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/P...5/anatomy.html

Hope these help. Tanks do have Pelvic and anal fins.

[Ping]

Sorry "Tangs", not "Tanks".

[cbianco]

Thanks Ping! I found a few descriptions similar to yours. After viewing the descriptions I was still unsure about the two lower fins, thanks for the clearification.

Christopher