oral grasping

oral grasping
a behaviour observed in members of the family Cyprinidae in laboratory flumes where the fish use the mouth to hold onto mesh screens as a station-holding method. Monocanthidae orally attach to sponges, tunicates, rope and fishing line in nature as a nocturnal mooring behaviour

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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