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This article presents a current assessment of elasmobranch auditory biology and an evaluation of future directions for research. Excellent review articles have recently detailed the pre-1975 development of this field (Popper and Fay 1977, Myrberg 1978), so I will not emphasize that work. Instead, I will focus on more recent investigations, including some new data.
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Corwin, J.T. (1981). Audition in Elasmobranchs. 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_5
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