Ontogeny of suction feeding capacity in snook, Centropomus undecimalis.

نویسندگان

  • Peter C Wainwright
  • Stephen H Huskey
  • Ralph G Turingan
  • Andrew M Carroll
چکیده

The ontogeny of suction feeding performance, as measured by peak suction generating capacity, was studied in the common snook, Centropomus undecimalis. Suction pressure inside the buccal cavity is a function of the total expansive force exerted on the buccal cavity distributed across the projected area of the buccal cavity. Thus, the scaling exponent of peak suction pressure with fish standard length was predicted to be equal to the scaling exponent of sternohyoideus muscle cross-sectional area, found to be 1.991, minus the scaling exponent for the projected buccal cavity area, found to be 2.009, equal to -0.018. No scaling was found in peak suction pressure generated by 12 snook ranging from 94 to 314 mm SL, supporting the prediction from morphology. C. undecimalis are able to generate similar suction pressures throughout ontogeny.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Comparative experimental biology

دوره 305 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006