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The auditory capacities of fish have recently been reviewed by Tavolga (1971), Popper and Fay (1973), Hawkins (1973) and Fay and Popper (1980), following early reviews by Griffin (1950), Kleerekoper and Chagnon (1954), and Moulton (1963). Not only can fish hear but they can distinguish between tones of differing frequency (Wohlfahrt 1939, Dijkgraaf and Verheijen 1950, Dijkgraaf 1952, Jacobs and Tavolga 1968, Fay 1970). For an ostariophysine fish, the goldfish, Carassius auratus, relative pitch discrimination lies between 3–6% (Jacobs and Tavolga 1968), and for several nonostariophysines it lies between 9 and 15% (Dijgraaf 1952).
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Horner, K., Hawkins, A.D., Fraser, P.J. (1981). Frequency Characteristics of Primary Auditory Neurons from the Ear of the Cod, Gadus morhua L.. In: Tavolga, W.N., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7186-5_11
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