Otoliths in bony fishes play an important role in the senses of balance and hearing. Otolith
mass and shape are, among others, likely to be decisive factors influencing otolith motion …

Otoliths are of interest to investigators from several disciplines including systematics,
auditory neuroscience, and fisheries. However, there is often very little sharing of information …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

The sagittal otolith of 348 species, belonging to 99 families and 22 orders of marine
Teleostean fishes from the north and central eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean …

The WWF-Natural Marine Reserve of Miramare (Trieste, Italy) is located in a major industrial
and vacation area in the Adriatic Sea. Consequently, noise emanating from boating and …

A recent survey lists more than 100 papers utilizing the auditory evoked potential (AEP)
recording technique for studying hearing in fishes. More than 95% of these AEP-studies …

The teleost family Sciaenidae, collectively known as the croakers and drums because of
their propensity for making sound, includes roughly 70 genera and 270 species worldwide …

An astonishing diversity of inner ears and accessory hearing structures (AHS) that can
enhance hearing has evolved in fishes. Inner ears mainly differ in the size of the otolith end …

Directional hearing may enable fishes to seek out prey, avoid predators, find mates, and
detect important spatial cues. Early sound localization experiments gave negative results …

Fishes, as broadly defined to include agnathans (jawless fishes), cartilaginous fishes, and
bony fishes, are the earliest vertebrates (Fig. 4.1). Because an inner ear is found in the fossil …