Fishes have evolved multiple mechanisms for sound production, many of which utilize sonic
muscles that vibrate the swimbladder or the rubbing of bony elements. Sonic muscles are …

Fishes have evolved a diversity of sound-generating organs. These include vibrating the
swimbladder and pectoral girdle by rapidly contracting muscles or rubbing bony elements …

Although sound-producing (sonic) muscles attached to fish swimbladders are the fastest
known vertebrate muscles, the functional requirement for such extreme speed has never …

Fish sonic swimbladder muscles are the fastest muscles in vertebrates and have fibers with
numerous biochemical and structural adaptations for speed. Carapid fishes produce sounds …

Fishes have evolved the largest diversity of sonic organs among vertebrates. The main
group of sound producing mechanisms is based on the swimbladder. These can be vibrated …

Fishes have a variety of peripheral mechanisms for sound production. These can be
categorized as:(i) hydrodynamic mechanisms related to swimming;(ii) stridulatory …

Publisher Summary The mechanisms of sound production by many fishes and the sounds
themselves have formed an active area of research. Although sound production may be …

In addition to briefly reviewing sound-producing mechanisms, this chapter focuses on an
under-appreciated evolutionary process, exaptation, which could aid in understanding the …

To categorize variation in disturbance calls of the weakfish Cynoscion regalis and to
understand their generation, we recorded sounds produced by different-sized fish, and by …

Many teleosts are able to emit sounds with their swimbladder. This chapter reviews the
various sonic mechanisms involving the swimbladder and the intrinsic and extrinsic …