Toadfish Halobatrachus-Didactylus
Automatic recognition of vocalizations in the lusitanian toadfish (Halobatrachus didactylus): acoustic rhythms and interactions
... Fish often use acoustic signals during mating and territorial defense and are probably the largest sound producing vertebrate group (Ladich, 2004). The family Batrachoididae includes several species that have become good ...
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Development and characterization of novel microsatellite loci for Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus
... The Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus is an eastern Atlantic polygynous species showing male paternal care. In this paper we describe 5 novel microsatellite loci obtained by 454 GS-FLX ...
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Development of vocalization, auditory sensitivity and acoustic communication in the Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus
... Lusitanian toadfish in pressure ...Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus (Vasconcelos et ...oyster toadfish Opsanus tau (Yan et ...
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Hormonal control of swimbladder sonic muscle dimorphism in the Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus
... Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus increase in size throughout life and are, respectively, 25% and 30% larger in type I (nest-holder) males than females, which may generate sexual ...
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Seasonal variation of sound production in the Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus
... effects are involved. In O. tau, boatwhistle duration is not temperature depen- dent, although it varies seasonally (Fine, 1978), and in Opsanus beta (Goode & Bean) the duration and other features of boatwhistles can ...
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Variability in the mating calls of the Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus: Cues for potential individual recognition
... Acoustic recognition systems have arisen in situations where crowding, noisy backgrounds (such as in dense colonies of birds) or darkness reduce the roles of olfactory and visual cues or increase the risk of confusion ...
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Variability in the sonic muscles of the lusitanian toadfish (Halobatrachus didactylus): Acoustic signals may reflect individual quality
... Lusitanian toadfish, namely larger body size and better condition (somatic and liver) in both males and females and larger accessory glands in ...oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau ...Lusitanian toadfish ...
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Acute effects of vanadate oligomers on heart, kidney, and liver histology in the lusitanian toadfish (Halobatrachus didactylus)
... Abstract. The contribution of vanadate oligomers to the acute histological effects of vanadium was analyzed in the heart, kidney, and liver of Halobatrachus didactylus (Schneider, 1801). A sublethal ...
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Stereotypy and variation of the mating call in the Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus
... Lusitanian toadfish differ among individuals even when considering several days, but high stereotypy is found only in P2 pulse period when considering longer periods of ...
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Acoustic communication in the Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus: Evidence for an unusual large vocal repertoire
... toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus (Bloch & Schneider) (Batrachoididae) is a well-known sound producer that has an unusual large acoustic repertoire for ...
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Are local extinctions and recolonizations continuing at the colder limits of marine fish distributions? Halobatrachus didactylus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), a possible candidate
... Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus (Ba- trachoididae) (Bloch and Schneider 1801) offers a very interesting model to investigate the structure of populations that are at the extreme north of ...
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Call recognition and individual identification of fish vocalizations based on automatic speech recognition: An example with the Lusitanian toadfish
... Batrachoididae includes several species that have become good models for acoustic communication studies, such as the Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus (Bass and McKibben, 2003; ...
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Representation of complex vocalizations in the Lusitanian toadfish auditory system: Evidence of fine temporal, frequency and amplitude discrimination
... Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus, and analysed auditory responses to heterospecific signals from ecologically relevant species: a sympatric vocal fish (meagre Argyrosomus regius) and a ...
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Vocal behavior during territorial intrusions in the lusitanian toadfish: Boatwhistles also function as territorial ‘keep-out’ signals
... Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus (Bloch and Schnei- der 1801) produces these distinct calls, boatwhistle and grunt train, most likely associated with mating activities and agonistic ...
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Assessing acoustic communication active space in the Lusitanian toadfish
... Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus (Bloch and Schneider 1801) is a member of the family Batrachoididae that inhabits coastal waters and estuaries (Roux, ...2010). Halobatrachus ...
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Lusitanian toadfish song reflects male quality
... Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus (Bloch and Schneider 1801) produces a long (about 1s) tonal low-frequency advertisement sound, the boatwhistle, which is highly stereotyped and shows ...
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Actividade e comportamento alimentar do xarroco (Halobatrachus didactylus, Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
... Activity rhythms and movement pattems of ten adult specimens of the Lusitanian toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus were studied in the River Mira estuary (Portugal).. usin[r] ...
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The social role of sound production and hearing in a highly vocal teleost fish, Halobatrachus didactylus
... pulses, interval between grunts). The temporal pattern is thought to be the most important sound characteristic for acoustic communication in fishes, especially in noisy and/ or shallow waters, where low frequencies do ...
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Patterns of shelter usage and social aggregation by the vocal lusitanian toadfish
... toadWsh, Halobatrachus didactylus, is an eastern Atlantic member of the family Batrachoididae that inhabits estuaries and coastal lagoons and has its northern- most limit of distribution in the Tagus ...
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Phylogeographic history of South American populations of the silky anteater Cyclopes didactylus (Pilosa: Cyclopedidae)
... Cyclopes didactylus, commonly called silky anteater, is the smallest and least studied of the anteaters. It is an arbo- real species occurring in rainforests, ranging from southern Mexico to Central and South ...
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