Body Design and Swimming Modes
Body Design and Swimming Modes
This chapter discusses the swimming styles of sharks, rays, and chimaeras. It covers differences in their skeletal and muscular anatomy; their skin and the dermal denticles that cover their bodies; hypotheses in scientific literature explaining how they use their tail fins to propel themselves forward and the empirical evidence supporting them; and commonly used classification of the diverse modes of swimming exhibited by the cartilaginous fishes.
Keywords: swimming styles, sharks, rays, chimaeras, skeleton, muscular anatomy, dermal denticles, tail fins
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