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Convergent Aspects of Acoustic Communication in Darters, Sculpins, and Gobies

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Fish Hearing and Bioacoustics

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 877))

Abstract

Darters (Perciformes, Percidae), sculpins (Perciformes, Cottidae), and gobioids (Gobiiformes, Gobioidei) exhibit convergent life history traits, including a benthic lifestyle and a cavity nesting spawning mode. Soniferous species within these taxa produce pulsed and/or tonal sounds with peak frequencies below 200 Hz (with some exceptions), primarily in agonistic and/or reproductive contexts. The reduced or absent swim bladders found in these taxa limit or prevent both hearing enhancement via pressure sensitivity and acoustic amplification of the contracting sonic muscles, which are associated with the skull and pectoral girdle. While such anatomies constrain communication to low frequency channels, optimization of the S/N (signal-to-noise) ratio in low frequency channels is evident for some gobies, as measured by habitat soundscape frequency windows, nest cavity sound amplification, and audiograms. Similar S/N considerations are applicable to many darter and sculpin systems. This chapter reviews the currently documented diversity of sound production in darters, sculpins, and gobioids within a phylogenetic context, examines the efficacy of signal transmission from senders to receivers (sound production mechanisms, audiograms, and masking challenges), and evaluates the potential functional significance of sound attributes in relation to territorial and reproductive behaviours.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful for the contributions of Drs. Fay and Popper to fish bioacoustics, which have undoubtedly enhanced our study of fish acoustic communication. Their body of work on fish hearing has provided a critical resource for integrating our work on sound production into a larger context. While we have not worked directly with them, PN and JNZ were advised for their Masters degrees by Dr. Dennis Higgs, Dr. Popper’s former post-doc.

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    Jeffrey N. Zeyl, Daniel E. Holt, Patricia Noel & Carol E. Johnston

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica, Center for Estuarine, CoastAL Marine Sciences (CEMAS), Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Castello 2737/b, 30122, Venice, Italy

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Zeyl, J.N., Malavasi, S., Holt, D.E., Noel, P., Lugli, M., Johnston, C.E. (2016). Convergent Aspects of Acoustic Communication in Darters, Sculpins, and Gobies. In: Sisneros, J. (eds) Fish Hearing and Bioacoustics. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 877. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21059-9_6

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