Figure 1
From: The role of suction thrust in the metachronal paddles of swimming invertebrates
Brightfield images of three taxonomically diverse marine invertebrates, the ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei, the polychaete annelid Tomopteris sp. and an unidentified larval decapod arthropod, left to right. Each of these swim using multiple paddles that move sequentially with antiplectic metachronal wave kinematics. As such, the sequential wave of paddles passes in the opposite direction of the power stroke.
