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Function of Theswimbladder-Inner Ear-Lateral Line System of Herring in the Young Stages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. H. S. Blaxter  and
E. J. Denton
J. H. S. Blaxter
Affiliation:
Dunstaffhage Marine Research Laboratory, Oban, Argyll, Scotland
E. J. Denton
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, England
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INTRODUCTION

The preceding paper (Allen, Blaxter & Denton, 1976) describes the development of the swimbladder-inner ear-lateral line system of the herring.

In the larval stage of herring the pro-otic bullae start to develop at a body length of about 18 mm. Between 18 and 30 mm the bullae become filled with gas. At 26 mm the lateral recess membrane starts to develop, becoming silvered at about 42 mm. The lateral line develops between 19 and 45 mm. The swimbladder silvers and contains gas from about 38 mm. The adult system is complete at 50–60 mm body length, some four months after hatching.

This paper concerns the system in its intermediate stages of development. It examines the problems of how the bullae are filled with gas and how the gas spaces are maintained. It gives evidence on the possible roles of the gas-filled spaces as hydrostatic pressure receptors and as aids to buoyancy and discusses the limitations of the system before it can gain or lose gas to a gas-filled swimbladder.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , May 1976 , pp. 487 - 502
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1976

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