Maximum speed

Range 78 to 192 Table - link mm/sec
Organism Copepod Acartia tonsa
Reference Jiang H, Kiørboe T. The fluid dynamics of swimming by jumping in copepods. J R Soc Interface. 2011 Aug 7 8(61):1090-103. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0481. p.5 table 1PubMed ID21208972
Primary Source Kiørboe T, Jiang H, Colin SP. Danger of zooplankton feeding: the fluid signal generated by ambush-feeding copepods. Proc Biol Sci. 2010 Nov 7 277(1698):3229-37. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0629.PubMed ID20538648
Method "[Researchers] developed an impulsive stresslet model to quantify the jump-imposed flow disturbance."
Entered by Uri M
ID 109841