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Marisa Agarwal, license: CC BY-NC 4.0, source: iNaturalist
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Batrachoidiformes
Family:
Batrachoididae
Subfamily:
Porichthyinae
Genus:
Porichthys
Species:
notatus
Common:
Plainfin midshipman
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Marine
Map of Known Habitats
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Regions:
Pacific, Eastern Central
Pacific, Northeast
Pacific, Southwest
Description
Sound Name: Unnamed
Citable References
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190021)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190023)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190027)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML516298)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML180990)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116613)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190018)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190026)
Sound Name: Grunt
Halliday et al. (2018)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190020)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190015)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190005)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190011)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190004)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190017)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190013)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190022)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190014)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190010)
Sound Name: Hum
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190000)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116676)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190008)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116612)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190024)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190016)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190025)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116804)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190003)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190001)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190009)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116805)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190006)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190002)
Sound Names: Growl; Grunt; Hum
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190012)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190019)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML190007)
Goebrecht, G. K. E., Kowtoniuk, R. A., Kelly, B. G., Kittelberger, J. M. 2014. Sexually-Dimorphic Expression of Tyrosine Hydroxylase Immunoreactivity in the Brain of a Vocal Teleost Fish (Porichthys notatus). Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 56: 13-34.
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
Visual
Bass, A. H., Horvath, B. J., Brothers, E. B. 1996. Nonsequential Developmental Trajectories Lead to Dimorphic Vocal Circuitry for Males with Alternative Reproductive Tactics. Journal of Neurobiology, 30(4): 493-504.
Forlano, P. M., Sisneros, J. A. 2016. Neuroanatomical Evidence for Catecholamines as Modulators of Audition and Acoustic Behavior in a Vocal Teleost. Fish Hearing and Bioacoustics (J. A. Sisneros, ed.), 439-475. Springer, Cham, Switzerland.
Lewis, M. K., Adhikari, B., Chen, V., Bass, A. H., Wang, K. 2002. Form and Function of Desmin Filaments in a Sound Producing Muscle from the Type I Male Midshipman Fish. Biophysical journal, 82(1): 401A-401A.
Bass, A., Baker, R. 1988. Neurophysiological Correlates of Sex Differences in the Sonic Motor System of the Midshipman, Porichthys notatus. Biological Bulletin, 175(2): 314-314.
Bass, A. H. 2002. Neural and Endocrine Regulation of Vocal-Acoustic Networks. Bioacoustics, 12(2-3): 246-249.
Forlano, P. M., Marchaterre, M., Deitcher, D. L., Bass, A. H. 2010. Distribution of Androgen Receptor mRNA Expression in Vocal, Auditory, and Neuroendocrine Circuits in a Teleost Fish. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 518(4): 493-512.
Goodson, J. L., Bass, A. H. 2000. Vasotocin innervation and Modulation of Vocal-Acoustic Circuitry in the Teleost Porichthys notatus. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 422(3): 363-379.
Forlano, P. M., Kim, S. D., Krzyminska, Z. M., Sisneros, J. A. 2014. Catecholaminergic Connectivity to the inner Ear, Central Auditory, and Vocal Motor Circuitry in the Plainfin Midshipman Fish Porichthys notatus. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 522(13): 2887-2927.
Arterbery, A. S., Deitcher, D. L., Bass, A. H. 2010. Corticosteroid Receptor Expression in a Teleost Fish That Displays Alternative Male Reproductive Tactics. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 165(1): 83-90.
Brantley, R. K., Tseng, J., Bass, A. H. 1993. The Ontogeny of inter- and intrasexual Vocal Muscle Dimorphisms in a Sound-Producing Fish. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 42(6): 336-349.
Forbes, J. G., Morris, H. D., Wang, K. 2006. Multimodal Imaging of the Sonic Organ of Porichthys notatus, the Singing Midshipman Fish. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 24(3): 321-331.
Lindholm, M. M., Bass, A. H. 1993. Early Events in Myofibrillogenesis and innervation of Skeletal, Sound-Generating Muscle in a Teleost Fish. Journal of Morphology, 216(2): 225-239.
Kittelberger, J. M., Bass, A. H. 2013. Vocal-Motor and Auditory Connectivity of the Midbrain Periaqueductal Gray in a Teleost Fish. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 521(4): 791-812.
Cullis-Suzuki, S. 2016. Singing Fish in an Ocean of Noise: Effects of Boat Noise on the Plainfin Midshipman (Porichthys notatus) in a Natural Ecosystem. Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II (A. N. Popper and A. Hawkins, eds.), 171-179. Springer, New York, NY.
Fluet, A., Bass, A. 1990. Sexual Dimorphisms in the Vocal Control System of a Teleost Fish: Ultrastructure of Neuromuscular Junctions. Brain Research, 531(1-2): 312-317.
Seeley, L. H., Forlano, P. M., Seeley, A. H., Sisneros, J. A. 2019. Teaching Acoustics in an interdisciplinary Context with ‘Singing’ Fish. European Journal of Physics, 40(2).
Brantley, R. K., Marchaterre, M. A., Bass, A. H. 1993. Androgen Effects on Vocal Muscle Structure in a Teleost Fish with inter- and intra-Sexual Dimorphism. Journal of Morphology, 216(3): 305-318.
Bass, A. H., Marchaterre, M. A. 1989. Sound-Generating (Sonic) Motor System in a Teleost Fish (Porichthys notatus): Sexual Polymorphisms and General Synaptology of Sonic Motor Nucleus. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 286(2): 154-169.
Ibara, R. M., Penny, L. T., Ebeling, A. W., van Dykhuizen, G., Cailliet, G. 1983. The Mating Call of the Plainfin Midshipman Fish, Porichthys notatus. Predators and Prey in Fishes, 205-212. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Sattar, F., Cullis-Suzuki, S., Jin, F. 2016. Acoustic Analysis of Big Ocean Data to Monitor Fish Sounds. Ecological Informatics, 34: 102-107.
Timothy, M., Forlano, P. M. 2020. Serotonin Distribution in the Brain of the Plainfin Midshipman: Substrates for Vocal-Acoustic Modulation and a Reevaluation of the Serotonergic System in Teleost Fishes. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 528(18): 3451-3478.
Mohr, R. A. 2017. Neural Response Patterns to Social Acoustic Signals and the Role of the Sexually Dimorphic Swim Bladder in the Plainfin Midshipman Fish, Porichthys notatus. PhD Dissertation, Univeristy of Washington.
Fish, M. P. 1948. Sonic Fishes of the Pacific. Office of Naval Research, Contract N6 ori-195, No. 2 TO 1, NR-083-003, Technical Report No. 2.
Halliday, W. D., Pine, M. K., Bose, A. P. H., Balshine, S., Juanes, F. 2018. The Plainfin Midshipman's Soundscape at Two Sites around Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 603: 189-200.
Weeg, M. S., Land, B. R., Bass, A. H. 2005. Vocal Pathways Modulate Efferent Neurons to the inner Ear and Lateral Line. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(25): 5967-5974.
Forlano, P. M., Bass, A. H. 2005. Seasonal Plasticity of Brain Aromatase mRNA Expression in Glia: Divergence across Sex and Vocal Phenotypes. Journal of Neurobiology, 65(1): 37-49.
Mohr, R. A., Whitchurch, E. A., Anderson, R. D., Forlano, P. M., Fay, R. R., Ketten, D. R., Cox, T. C., Sisneros, J. A. 2017. Intra- and intersexual Swim Bladder Dimorphisms in the Plainfin Midshipman Fish (Porichthys notatus): Implications of Swim Bladder Proximity to the inner Ear for Sound Pressure Detection. Journal of Morphology, 278(11): 1458-1468.
Tripp, J. A., Feng, N. Y., Bass, A. H. 2021. To Hum or Not to Hum: Neural Transcriptome Signature of Male Courtship Vocalization in a Teleost Fish. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 20(6).
Rubow, T. K., Bass, A. H. 2009. Reproductive and Diurnal Rhythms Regulate Vocal Motor Plasticity in a Teleost Fish. Journal of Experimental Biology, 212(20): 3252-3262.
Goodson, J. L., Evans, A. K., Bass, A. H. 2003. Putative Isotocin Distributions in Sonic Fish: Relation to Vasotocin and Vocal-Acoustic Circuitry. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 462(1): 1-14.
Brantley, R. K., Bass, A. W. 1994. Alternative Male Spawning Tactics and Acoustic Signals in the Plainfin Midshipman Fish Porichthys notatus Girard (Teleostei, Batrachoididae). Ethology, 96(3): 213-232.
Bass, A. H., McKibben, J. R. 2003. Neural Mechanisms and Behaviors for Acoustic Communication in Teleost Fish. Progress in Neurobiology, 69(1): 1-26.
Ghahramani, Z. N. 2017. Distribution and Activation of Catecholaminergic Neurons in the Brain of Male Plainfin Midshipman Fish: Divergence in Behavior and Reproductive Phenotype. PhD Dissertation, City University of New York.
Kittelberger, J. M., Land, B. R., Bass, A. H. 2006. Midbrain Periaqueductal Gray and Vocal Patterning in a Teleost Fish. Journal of Neurophysiology, 96(1): 71-85.
Goodson, J. L., Bass, A. H. 2002. Vocal-Acoustic Circuitry and Descending Vocal Pathways in Teleost Fish: Convergence with Terrestrial Vertebrates Reveals Conserved Traits. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 448(3): 298-322.
Albersheim-Carter, J., Blubaum, A., Ballagh, I. H., Missaghi, K., Siuda, E. R., McMurray, G., Bass, A. H., Dubuc, R., Kelley, D. B., Schmidt, M. F., Wilson, R. J. A., Gray, P. A. 2016. Testing the Evolutionary Conservation of Vocal Motoneurons in Vertebrates. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 224: 2-10.
McIver, E. L., Marchaterre, M. A., Rice, A. N., Bass, A. H. 2014. Novel Underwater Soundscape: Acoustic Repertoire of Plainfin Midshipman Fish. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217(13): 2377-2389.
Cohen, M. J., Winn, H. E. 1967. Electrophysiological Observations on Hearing and Sound Production in Fish, Porichthys notatus. Journal of Experimental Zoology, 165(3): 355-370.
Goodson, J. L., Bass, A. H. 2000. Rhythmic Midbrain-Evoked Vocalization Is inhibited by Vasoactive intestinal Polypeptide in the Teleost Porichthys notatus. Brain Research, 865(1): 107-111.
Remage-Healey, L., Bass, A. H. 2010. Estradiol interacts with an Opioidergic Network to Achieve Rapid Modulation of a Vocal Pattern Generator. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 196(2): 137-146.
Butler, J., Pagniello, C. M. L. S., Jaffe, J. S., Parnell, P. E., Širović, A. 2021. Diel and Seasonal Variability in Kelp forest Soundscapes off the Southern California Coast. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8(629643).
Feng, N. Y., Bass, A. H. 2016. "Singing" Fish Rely on Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin for the Timing of Nocturnal Courtship Vocalization. Current Biology, 26(19): 2681-2689.
Petersen, C. L., Timothy, M., Kim, D. S., Bhandiwad, A. A., Mohr, R. A., Sisneros, J. A., Forlano, P. M. 2013. Exposure to Advertisement Calls of Reproductive Competitors Activates Vocal-Acoustic and Catecholaminergic Neurons in the Plainfin Midshipman Fish, Porichthys notatus. PLoS ONE, 8(8).
Chagnaud, B. P., Bass, A. H. 2013. Vocal Corollary Discharge Communicates Call Duration to Vertebrate Auditory System. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(48): 18775-18780.
Ghahramani, Z. N., Timothy, M., Varughese, J., Sisneros, J. A., Forlano, P. M. 2018. Dopaminergic Neurons Are Preferentially Responsive to Advertisement Calls and Co-Active with Social Behavior Network Nuclei in Sneaker Male Midshipman Fish. Brain Research, 1701: 177-188.
Brown, N. A., Halliday, W. D., Balshine, S., Juanes, F. 2021. Low-Amplitude Noise Elicits the Lombard Effect in Plainfin Midshipman Mating Vocalizations in the Wild. Animal Behaviour, 181: 29-39.
Sisneros, J. A., Forlano, P. M., Knapp, R., Bass, A. H. 2004. Seasonal Variation of Steroid Hormone Levels in an intertidal-Nesting Fish, the Vocal Plainfin Midshipman. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 136(1): 101-116.
Lee, J. S. F., Bass, A. H. 2005. Differential Effects of 11-Ketotestosterone on Dimorphic Traits in a Teleost with Alternative Male Reproductive Morphs. Hormones and Behavior, 47(5): 523-531.
Fergus, D. J., Bass, A. H. 2013. Localization and Divergent Profiles of Estrogen Receptors and Aromatase in the Vocal and Auditory Networks of a Fish with Alternative Mating Tactics. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 521(12): 2850-2869.
Ghahramani, Z. N., Timothy, M., Kaur, G., Gorbonosov, M., Chernenko, A., Forlano, P. M. 2015. Catecholaminergic Fiber innervation of the Vocal Motor System Is intrasexually Dimorphic in a Teleost with Alternative Reproductive Tactics. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 86(2): 131-144.
McKibben, J. R., Bass, A. H. 1998. Behavioral Assessment of Acoustic Parameters Relevant to Signal Recognition and Preference in a Vocal Fish. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104(6): 3520-3533.
Feng, N. Y., Marchaterre, M. A., Bass, A. H. 2019. Melatonin Receptor Expression in Vocal, Auditory, and Neuroendocrine Centers of a Highly Vocal Fish, the Plainfin Midshipman (Porichthys notatus). Journal of Comparative Neurology, 527(8): 1362-1377.
Bass, A. H., Marchaterre, M. A., Baker, R. 1994. Vocal-Acoustic Pathways in a Teleost Fish. Journal of Neuroscience, 14(7): 4025-4039.
Greene, C. W. 1924. Physiological Reactions and Structure of the Vocal Apparatus of the California Singing Fish, Porichthys notatus. American Journal of Physiology, 70(3): 496-499.
Feng, N. Y., Fergus, D. J., Bass, A. H. 2015. Neural Transcriptome Reveals Molecular Mechanisms for Temporal Control of Vocalization across Multiple Timescales. BMC Genomics, 16(408).
Bass, A. H., Bodnar, D. A., Marchaterre, M. A. 2000. Midbrain Acoustic Circuitry in a Vocalizing Fish. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 419(4): 505-531.
Mohr, R. A., Chang, Y., Bhandiwad, A. A., Forlano, P. M., Sisneros, J. 2018. Brain Activation Patterns in Response to Conspecific and Heterospecific Social Acoustic Signals in Female Plainfin Midshipman Fish, Porichthys notatus. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 91(1): 31-44.
Perelmuter, Jonathan T. 2019. Structure and Function of Dopamine in the inner Ear and Auditory Efferent System of a Vocal Fish. PhD Dissertation, City University of New York.
Bass, A., Andersen, K. 1991. Inter- and intrasexual Dimorphisms in the Vocal Control System of a Teleost Fish: Motor Axon Number and Size. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 37(4): 204-214.