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Until recently relatively little was known concerning the neural mechanisms controlling sound production in fishes. This is not surprising considering that prior to World War II there were few experimental studies on even peripheral sonic mechanisms (see papers in Tavolga 1977). Tavolga (1964, 1971) has reviewed the early work of peripheral innervation patterns in the sonic mechanisms of a variety of teleosts and therefore this will not be covered in detail in this review. Some of the information discussed in an earlier review on central mechanisms of sound production in teleosts (Demski, Gerald, and Popper 1973) has been incorporated into this chapter and updated with the results of recent studies including some experiments on electrically evoked croaking in Micropogon undulatus (Demski, Williams, and Dulka unpublished observations). Neural mechanisms of sound production are considered under the following functional categories: neuromuscular systems, central motor mechanisms, and higher integrative or control systems. Information in all of these categories is then combined into a model that summarizes many of the most significant results. Although there are a great variety of sonic mechanisms in teleosts, only those systems that use skeletal muscles to vibrate the swimbladder have been considered in this chapter.
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Demski, L.S. (1981). Neural Control of Teleost Sound Production. 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_21
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