Do body and fin form affect the abilities of fish to stabilize swimming during maneuvers through vertical and horizontal tubes?
dc.contributor.author | Schrank, Amy J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Webb, Paul W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-08T20:33:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-08T20:33:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1998-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Schrank, Amy J.; Webb, Paul W.; (1998). "Do body and fin form affect the abilities of fish to stabilize swimming during maneuvers through vertical and horizontal tubes?." Environmental Biology of Fishes 53(4): 365-371. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42641> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0378-1909 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-5133 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42641 | |
dc.description.abstract | Goldfish, Carassius auratus, silver dollar, Metynnis hypsauchen, and angelfish, Pterophyllum scalare were induced to swim through narrow vertical and horizontal tubes ranging in length from 0 to 20 cm (approximately 0 to 3 times total fish length, FL). The ability to stabilize the body while negotiating these confined spaces was quantified as (1) the minimum width of vertical (w v ) and horizontal (w h ) tubes traversed, where width is the smaller cross-sectional dimension of the tube, (2) the ratio w v /w h , and (3) transit speed through the tubes. Tube width was expressed as relative width, obtained by dividing tube width by fish length. Minimum relative widths traversed increased from 0.15 to 0.19 in the order silver dollar > angelfish > goldfish for vertical tubes and from 0.17 to 0.18 in the order goldfish=silver dollar > angelfish for horizontal tubes. w v /w h increased from 0.91 to 1.10 in the order silver dollar=angelfish > goldfish. Minimum tube widths generally increased with tube length for vertical tubes. Although significant differences in relative minimum widths among species were found, these were small. In contrast, for horizontal tubes, there was no significant effect of tube length on minimum tube width for any species. Large differences were found in transit speed. Transit speed generally decreased as the tube length increased. The slope of the relationship between transit speed and tube length varied among species generally increasing from − 0.41 to − 1.16 for horizontal tubes in the order goldfish > silver dollar > angelfish and from − 0.42 to − 1.07 in the order silver dollar > goldfish > angelfish for vertical tubes. As a result, goldfish usually took longest to traverse tubes of zero length but the shortest time to traverse the longest tubes. In contrast, angelfish traversed short tubes in the least time and long tubes in the greatest time. Deeper bodied angelfish swam slowly and traversed tubes with difficulty because they required experience during each trial to replace median and paired fin with body and caudal fin swimming. According to our data, goldfish were best able to swim in confined spaces. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Environment | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Hydrobiology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Zoology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Environment, General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Nature Conservation | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Carassius Auratus | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Metynnis Hypsauchen | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Pterophyllum Scalare | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Goldfish | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Angelfish | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Silver Dollar | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Swimming | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Stability | en_US |
dc.title | Do body and fin form affect the abilities of fish to stabilize swimming during maneuvers through vertical and horizontal tubes? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1115, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1115, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42641/1/10641_2004_Article_180525.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007414911734 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Environmental Biology of Fishes | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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