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SIMULTANEOUS sound and action potential records have been made from a New Zealand marine teleost, Congiopodus leucopaecilus (Perciformes), the pigfish, which produces noises in the water by resonance of the swimbladder. The muscles responsible for the sound are a pair of delta-shaped intracostal striated muscles running obliquely between the vertebral intercentra and back border of the pectoral girdle of either side of the body, and lying against the side walls of the swimbladder. In a fish 24 cm. long the swimbladder is 4.5 cm. and the muscles 3 cm.
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PACKARD, A. Electrophysiological Observations on a Sound-producing Fish. Nature 187, 63–64 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187063a0
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