ArticleRoyal Society open science2023
Tail shape and the swimming speed of sharks.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evolutionary Stability of the Shark Snout: Geometric Morphometrics of Ventral Facial Openings.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Speed-dependent locomotor patterns during steady swimming in a demersal shark.Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- In Situ Thrust Measurement of Fish During Locomotion; Test Case: Sharks.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Allometric Growth and Scaling of Body Form of the Spadenose Shark (Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Ecological lifestyle and gill slit height across sharks.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Shark genome size evolution and its relationship with cellular, life-history, ecological, and diversity traits.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Tail shape and the swimming speed of sharks.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Trait-based ecology is a rapidly growing approach for developing insights and predictions for data-poor species. Caudal tail fin shape has the potential to reveal much about the energetics, activity and ecology of fishes and can be rapidly measured from field guides, which is particularly helpful for data-sparse species. One outstanding question is whether swimming speed in sharks is related to two morphological traits: caudal fin aspect ratio (CFAR, height
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