COMPARATIVE CAUDAL PHYSIOLOGY
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    • Swimming Philosophies
    • Speed
    • Slow and Steady
    • Ambush Predator
    • Unusual
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  • Home
  • Overview
  • Shapes and Types
    • Shapes and Types
    • Pointed
    • Rounded
    • Truncate and Indented
    • Forked and Lunate
    • Heterocercal
  • Swimming Philosophies
    • Swimming Philosophies
    • Speed
    • Slow and Steady
    • Ambush Predator
    • Unusual
  • Resources
  COMPARATIVE CAUDAL PHYSIOLOGY

Pointed

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Image Source: Animalia Life
Dragon Moray Eel
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Image Source: Horizon Times
Grenadier
Uses: (Not all apply to all individual fishes with a pointed caudal fin)
  • Weaseling through cracks, crevices, and holes
  • Simplicity
  • Speed is unimportant
  • Burrowing into sand/mud (To lie in wait for prey to come within reach)
  • Lunging for reachable prey
  • Deep sea scavenging
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