Table 2:
Absolute and relative critical swimming speed by species and swimming mode for all fishes that completed the swimming trials
| Mode | Species |
Ucrit (absolute; cm s−1) |
Ucrit (relative; body lengths s−1) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | ||
| BCF | Pterocaesio marri | 82.05a | 5.10 | 10.10ab | 1.04 |
| BCF | Caesio teres | 83.96a | 3.20 | 10.13a | 0.30 |
| MPF | Acanthochromis polyacanthus | 63.12b | 1.76 | 8.43a | 0.19 |
| MPF | Chromis atripectoralis | 75.57a | 3.41 | 12.10b | 0.50 |
Swimming modes included body–caudal fin (BCF) and median–paired fin (MPF) swimming. Ucrit, critical swimming speed. Sample sizes are as in Table 1. Common letters indicate no significant differences (α = 0.05).