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Sounds

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Marine sounds: Overview

Lusitanian toadfish / Xarroco

Reported in Amorim, M. C. P., Simões, J. M., & Fonseca, P. J. (2008). Acoustic communication in the Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus: evidence for an unusual large vocal repertoire. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88(5), 1069-1073.

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Meagre / Corvina

Reported in

  • Vieira, M., Pereira, B. P., Pousão-Ferreira, P., Fonseca, P. J., & Amorim, M. (2019). Seasonal variation of captive meagre acoustic signalling: a manual and automatic recognition approach. Fishes, 4(2), 28.

  • Pereira, B. P., Vieira, M., Pousão-Ferreira, P., Candeias-Mendes, A., Barata, M., Fonseca, P. J., & Amorim, M. C. P. (2020). Sound production in the Meagre, Argyrosomus regius (Asso, 1801): intraspecific variability associated with size, sex and context. PeerJ, 8, e8559.

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Reported in:

  • Amorim, M. C. P., & Neves, A. S. M. (2007). Acoustic signalling during courtship in the painted goby, Pomatoschistus pictus. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 87(4), 1017-1023.

  • Pedroso, S. S., Barber, I., Svensson, O., Fonseca, P. J., & Amorim, M. C. P. (2013). Courtship sounds advertise species identity and male quality in sympatric Pomatoschistus spp. gobies. PLoS One, 8(6), e64620.

  • Amorim, M. C. P., Vasconcelos, R. O., Bolgan, M., Pedroso, S. S., & Fonseca, P. J. (2018). Acoustic communication in marine shallow waters: testing the acoustic adaptive hypothesis in sand gobies. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(22).

  • de Jong, K., Amorim, M. C. P., Fonseca, P. J., Fox, C. J., & Heubel, K. U. (2018). Noise can affect acoustic communication and subsequent spawning success in fish. Environmental Pollution, 237, 814-823.

Gobies / Caboz

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Cichlids / Ciclideos

Reported in:

  • Amorim, M. C. P., Knight, M. E., Stratoudakis, Y., & Turner, G. F. (2004). Differences in sounds made by courting males of three closely related Lake Malawi cichlid species. Journal of Fish Biology, 65(5), 1358-1371.

  • Amorim, M. C. P., & Almada, V. C. (2005). The outcome of male–male encounters affects subsequent sound production during courtship in the cichlid fish Oreochromis mossambicus. Animal Behaviour, 69(3), 595-601.

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Gunards / Triglidanídios

Reported in:

  • Amorim, M. C. P., & Hawkins, A. D. (2000). Growling for food: acoustic emissions during competitive feeding of the streaked gurnard. Journal of Fish Biology, 57(4), 895-907.

  • Amorim, M. C. P., Stratoudakis, Y., & Hawkins, A. D. (2004). Sound production during competitive feeding in the grey gurnard. Journal of Fish Biology, 65(1), 182-194.

  • Amorim, M. C. P. (2006). Diversity of sound production in fish. Communication in fishes, 1, 71-104.

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Azores fishes / Peixes dos Açores

Reported in Carriço, R., Silva, M. A., Menezes, G. M., Fonseca, P. J., & Amorim, M. C. P. (2019). Characterization of the acoustic community of vocal fishes in the Azores. PeerJ, 7, e7772.

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Mozambican reef fish community / Peixes dos recifes de coral Moçambicanos

Reported in Puebla-Aparicio, M., Ascencio-Elizondo, C., Vieira, M., Amorim, M. C. P., Duarte, R., & Fonseca, P. J. (2024). Characterization of the fish acoustic communities in a Mozambican tropical coral reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 727, 143-158.

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Acoustic fish community in the Madeira Archipelago (North Atlantic Ocean) / Peixes do arquipélago da Madeira

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Beach breaking waves / Rebentação de ondas do mar

Reported in Amorim, M. C. P., Vasconcelos, R. O., Bolgan, M., Pedroso, S. S., & Fonseca, P. J. (2018). Acoustic communication in marine shallow waters: testing the acoustic adaptive hypothesis in sand gobies. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(22).

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Other websites with marine sounds

There is still a major number of species that are not even confirmed as being vocal (Rice et al., 2020). Furthermore, does not exist a central database of sounds that could be used as reference for each species or group species. Efforts to make available several sounds have been done by the following websites:

Fish base

DOSITS

Sounds produced by mammals, fishes, invertebrates and man-made (several authors)

Macaulay library

The Macaulay Library is the world's largest archive of animal sounds

Macaulay library - Fishes

Link to Marie P. Fish recordings of fishes.

SART

Fish Sounds Collection of Joe Luczkovich

Rountree site

Studies on Soniferous Fishes (with recordings)

Laboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology

Fishtalk

Manuel and Rita phD studies

FishSounds.net

Global inventory of fish sound production research

SanctSound

Sanctuary Soundscape Monitoring Project

Marine sounds: List
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