Members of the Sciaenidae, comprising

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• Subjects: Cynoscion nebulosus (Mok and Gilmore 1983; Red drum; Sciaenops ocellatus
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have long been known as soniferous fishes. Their sounds, composed of bursts of knocking, drum-ming, or croaking sounds (Tavolga 1971), are emitted by vibrating a pair of striated swim bladder muscles closely associated with the lateral body wall musculature (Tower 1908, Takemura et al. 1978). Sciaenid sound production is primarily lim-ited to the spawning season (Mok and Gilmore 1983, Saucier and Baltz 1993, Connaughton and Taylor 1995), suggesting that it might play a role in reproduction. Sound production during the repro-ductive season has been reported in a number of sciaenid species, such as the drumfish, Argyrosomus argentatus (Takemura et al. 1978); red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus (Guest and Lasswell 1978); black drum, Pogonias cromis; sil-ver perch, Bairdiella chrysoura; spotted seatrout