Morphometry and burst swimming in six continental fish species from Costa Rica
| Autor: | Francisco Quesada-Alvarado, Fernando Campos-Calderón |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Cuadernos de investigación UNED, Vol 11, Iss 3 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1659-4266 1659-441X |
| DOI: | 10.22458/urj.v11i3.2701 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Current research of fish locomotion is focused on creating better underwater vehicles and how environmental stress factors modify swimming. Objective: To study the relation of morphometric characteristics with burst swimming in six representative species of continental fishes from Costa Rica. Methods: We measured total length, standard length, height and area of the tail of 38 individuals from six species. We used a Kruskall-Wallis test and a Boxplot graphic to compare species; and a PCA test to identify body variables that influence swimming. A Non-Metric Dimensional Scaling (NMDS) test was done for species and position in the water column. Results: The fastest swimming corresponded to A. nigrofasciata (9,29cm/s), while S. salvini (1,65cm/s) was the slowest. Burst swimming speed is influenced by body size and tail type, and differed with position in the water column, being surface species the fastest. Conclusions: Morphological and ecological characteristics determine differences in burst swim. |
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