The pressures of suction feeding: The relation between buccal pressure and induced fluid speed in centrarchid fishes

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 3281-3287

  Higham, Timothy E ^a   Day, Steven W ^b   Wainwright, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kate Gleason College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Buccal pressure; Centrarchidae; DPIV; Feeding; Fluid speed; Hydrodynamics; Kinematics; Lepomis; Micropterus; Prey capture; Suction feeding; Volume

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOW KINETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

CENTRARCHIDAE; LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PERCIFORMES; PISCES;

EID: 33749582830     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02383     Document Type: Article

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