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Possible Mechanisms for Directional Hearing and Pitch Discrimination in Fish

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The sense of hearing in fish is anatomically localized to the pars inferior of the labyrinth (comprising sacculus and lagena) while the site of the equilibrium function is in the pars superior (utriculus and ampullae of the semicircular canals) (Fig. 1) (von Frisch and Stetter, 1932; von Frisch, 1936, 1938; Dijkgraaf, 1949). The functional role of the various parts of the labyrinth is not absolutely strict, however, since the lagena seems to have essentially an equilibrium function in elasmobranchs (Lowenstein and Roberts, 1949, 1951) and an auditory function in teleosts. It has also been shown that the utriculus may perceive sound in teleosts (Dijkgraaf, 1949).

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Sand, O., Enger, P.S. (1974). Possible Mechanisms for Directional Hearing and Pitch Discrimination in Fish. In: Symposium Mechanoreception. Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-01719-6_16

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