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Six-legged walking by a bottom-dwelling fish
Renous, S.; Gasc, J.-P.; Bels, V.L.; Davenport, J. (2000). Six-legged walking by a bottom-dwelling fish. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 80(4): 757-758. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315499002696
In: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press/Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom: Cambridge. ISSN 0025-3154; e-ISSN 1469-7769, more
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  • Renous, S.
  • Gasc, J.-P.
  • Bels, V.L.
  • Davenport, J., more
Abstract
    The hypothesis of a locomotor role for the free rays of Trigloporus lastoviza is supported by: (1) their periodic retraction and protraction during slow displacement over the substratum whenever the propulsive body wave responsible for swimming is not visible; (2) the integration of the rays' individual cycles into a hexapod gait apparently generated by a metachronal impulse; and (3) the kinematic features of the longest free ray in relation to the bottom-walking velocity.
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