Kinematics and critical swimming speed of juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2605-2610

  Lowe, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical speed; Flume; Hammerhead shark; Sphyrna lewini; Swimming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000595012     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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