An overview of the swimming mechanisms employed by fish is provide by Sfakiotakis, M., D. M. Lane, J. Bruce & C. Davies, 1999. Review of Fish Swimming Modes for Aquatic Locomotion.
IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 24(2): 237 - 252.
'Fish swim either by body and/or caudal fin (BCF) movements (for greater thrust and acceleration) or by using
median and/or paired fin (MPF) propulsion; the latter generally employed at slow speeds, offering greater maneuverability and better propulsive efficiency.'
About N. Sivasothi
Sivasothi is lecturing Biodiversity, Ecology, Structure and Function, Marine Biology and Animal Behaviour with the Department of Biological Sciences.
His interests include otters, mangroves, museum databases, coastal ecology, tree-climbing crabs and conservation of biodiversity.
He is also the national coordinator of the International Coastal Cleanup Singapore and Toddycats! Volunteers of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, NUS.