Swimming movies
The Quicktime movie below illustrates pectoral fin locomotion by
the striped surfperch, Embiotoca lateralis.
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Movie 3: Six size
classes of striped surfperch swimming at the same absolute
speed (dorsal view). Note that large fish use relatively low
frequency pectoral fin oscillation to match the current, but
the smallest fish requires rapid body undulation.
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