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Sound produced | yes, active sound production |
Type of sound produced | barks & scratchy burst |
Sound production organ | pharyngeal teeth & swim bladder |
Sound mechanism | not specified, but probably pharyngeal teeth stridulation amplified by adjacent swim bladder |
Behavioural context | when netted or mildly alarmed |
Reference | Fish, M.P. and W.H. Mowbray, 1970 |
Remark | recordings of six specimen in order of increasing size |