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Hearing in Crustacea

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The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

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Crustaceans are the only invertebrates besides insects and spiders in which communication via acoustic signals is well known (e.g., Horch and Salmon 1969; Altevogt 1970; Salmon and Horch 1972; Markl 1983, for general aspects of vibrational communication; Salmon 1983; Aicher and Tautz 1990; Römer and Tautz 1991, for a recent review). Acoustic communication necessarily includes both effector structures to produce sound and sensory structures to receive sound. In the different crustacean species, these structures show a variety of morphological expressions, depending on whether the animals are aquatic (such as lobsters and shrimps) or semiterrestrial (such as ghost and fiddler crabs.)

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA

    Douglas B. Webster

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Arthur N. Popper

  3. Parmly Hearing Institute and Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60626, USA

    Richard R. Fay

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Budelmann, B.U. (1992). Hearing in Crustacea. In: Webster, D.B., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2784-7_9

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