Swimming in Marine Fish

Behavior of Marine Fishes: Capture Processes and Conservation Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-24

  Videler, John J ^b   He, Pingguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Energy for swimming oxygen as fuel to muscles; Fish swimming apparatus fins and myotomes; Fish swimming speeds and endurance; Fish swimming styles pectoral fin swimming and median fin propulsion; Flexible fin rays adjusting stiffness and fins chamber; Hydrodynamic interactions between moving fish and water; Interactions between fish and water velocity gradient and vortex rings; Lateral longitudinal muscle fibres myotomes, and myocepts; Marine fish locomotion fish swimming mechanisms; Swimming related adaptations long unpaired fins for braking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858280786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813810966.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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