Classifications of fish swimming are reviewed as a prelude to discussing functional design
and performance in an ecological context. Webb (1984a, 1998) classified fishes based on …

Anguilliform swimmers are long and narrow animals that propel themselves by undulating
their bodies. Observations in nature and recent investigations suggest that anguilliform …

To evaluate the swimming performances of aquatic animals, an important dimensionless
quantity is the Strouhal number, St= fA/U, with f the tail-beat frequency, A the peak-to-peak …

Waterways provide many ecological and socialservices, such as water supply, navigation,
freshwater reservoirs for aquatic organisms, recreation, and fisheries. However, in …

This review examines the present state of knowledge about the ecology of anguilliform
leptocephali, which are the unique but poorly understood larvae of eels. All eels spawn in …

Animals can actively influence the content and quality of sensory information they acquire
from the environment through the positioning of peripheral sensory surfaces. This study …

In this brief, we investigate the parameter optimization issue of a central pattern generator
(CPG) network governed forward and backward swimming for a fully untethered, multijoint …

This paper deals with numerical simulations on a self-propelled fish-like body. Firstly, the
methods used to achieve such simulations based on the solution of the Reynolds-Averaged …

Most aquatic vertebrates swim by passing a bending wave down their bodies, a swimming
mode known as undulatory propulsion. Except for very elongated swimmers like eels and …

Diverse locomotor behaviors emerge from the interactions between the spinal central
pattern generator (CPG), descending brain signals and sensory feedback. Salamander …