The swimming of the mandarin fishSynchropus picturatus(Callionyiidae: Teleostei)

Abstract

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).