Swimming performance of three southwest Pacific fishes

✍ Scribed by F. W. H. Beamish

• Book ID: 104753559
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 328 KB
• Volume: 79
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0025-3162
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00393263

✦ Synopsis

The logarithm of stamina for each of Sardinops sagax (4 to 6 600 s), Scomber japonicus peruanus (16 to 27 000 s) and Odontestes regia (7 to 9 900 s), adjusted to a length of 10 cm, decreased linearly over swimming speeds of 31 to 82, 25 to 78 and 24 to 75 cm s -1, respectively (19 ~ The regression coefficient was -0.064 for both S.j. peruanus and O. regia and -0.049 for S. sagax. Critical swimming speed (60 rain, 5 cm s -1) for S. sagax (10 cm), 32 cm s 1, is within the range found for other species of similar length. The suggestion of a change in regression coefficient as swimming speed increased from prolonged to burst (Brett, 1964) was not supported by the results of this study.