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Joachim S. Müller, license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, source: iNaturalist
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Clupeiformes
Family:
Clupeidae
Genus:
Clupea
Species:
harengus
Common:
Atlantic herring
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Polar
Boreal
Waters:
Brackish water
Marine
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Regions:
Atlantic, Northeast
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Europe - Inland Waters
North America - Inland Waters
Description
Sound Names: Grunt Thump; Knock
Citable References
Fish and Mowbray (1970)
Kaschner (2012)
Sound Name: Unnamed
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML111934)
Wilson, B., Batty, R. S., Dill, L. M. 2003. Pacific and Atlantic Herring Produce Burst Pulse Sounds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271(Suppl_3): S95-S97.
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
Visual
Fish, M. P. 1954. The Character and Significance of Sound Production among Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, 14(3): 1-109.
Freytag, G. 1971. Practical Applications and Limitations in the Method of Fish Finding by Passive Listening. Modern Fishing Gear of the World, 3: 51-55.
Fish, M. P., Mowbray, W. H. 1970. Sounds of Western North Atlantic Fishes, A Reference File of Biological Underwater Sounds. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, MD.
Fish, M. P., Kelsey, A. S. J., Mowbray, W. H. 1952. Studies on the Production of Underwater Sound by North Atlantic Coastal Fishes. Journal of Marine Research, 11(2): 180-193.
Hahn, T. R., Thomas, G. 2009. Passive Acoustic Detection of Schools of Herring. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(5): 2896-2908.
Langård, L., Øvredal, J. T., Johannessen, A., Nøttestad, L., Skaret, G., Fernö, A., Wahlberg, M. 2008. Sound Production in Pre-Spawning Herring, Cod and Haddock in a Naturally Enclosed Ecosystem. Bioacoustics, 17(1-3): 38-40.
Wahlberg, M., Westerberg, H. 2003. Sounds Produced by Herring (Clupea harengus) Bubble Release. Aquatic Living Resources, 16(3): 271-275.