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The swimming of the mandarin fish Synchropus picturatus (Callionyiidae: Teleostei)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. W. Blake
R. W. Blake
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge
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In order to gain a general understanding of the problems of fish locomotion and appreciate them in an evolutionary context, it is important that we have information available on the kinematics, hydrodymamics and energetics of the swimming of as wide a range of fish as possible. At present, most of our knowledge of fish locomotion is restricted to the swimming of streamlined, pelagic and nektonic teleosts, capable of high speeds and accelerations, that are either neutrally buoyant or have a buoyancy close to neutral (see Lighthill (1969), Webb (1975), Bone (1975) for reviews).

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , May 1979 , pp. 421 - 428
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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