Undulatory Locomotion in Elongate Aquatic Vertebrates: Anguilliform Swimming since Sir James Gray
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عنوان ژورنال: American Zoologist
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0003-1569
DOI: 10.1093/icb/36.6.656