The swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw, or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ in bony fish that functions to modulate buoyancy, and thus allowing...

Swim bladder disease, also called swim bladder disorder or flipover, is a common ailment in aquarium fish. The swim bladder is an internal gas-filled...

distress. Swim bladder disease is a common condition which impairs their ability to maintain buoyancy. This condition is associated with the swim bladder, a...

a cloaca into which the urinary and genital passages open, but not a swim bladder. Cartilaginous fish produce a small number of large yolky eggs. Some...

and ensuring proper filtration. Swim bladder disease refers to a collection of issues affecting a fish's swim bladder, the organ responsible for buoyancy...

vertical distances, and are undertaken with the assistance of a swim bladder. The swim bladder is inflated when the fish wants to move up, and, given the high...

swim bladder is absent in one or more species. This absence is often the case in fast-swimming fishes such as the tuna and mackerel. The swim bladder...

The Weberian apparatus is an anatomical structure that connects the swim bladder to the auditory system in fishes belonging to the superorder Ostariophysi...

The bladder (from Old English blædre 'bladder, blister, pimple') is a hollow organ in humans and other vertebrates that stores urine from the kidneys...

varying pH, and habitats with low dissolved O 2 content due to their swim bladders, which they use primarily to breathe. They can also rise to the surface...

(9.8 ft) in length have been reported. Unusually, their vascularised swim bladders can function as lungs, and most gars surface periodically to take a...

croaking mechanism involves the beating of abdominal muscles against the swim bladder. Sciaenids are found worldwide, in both fresh and salt water, and are...

produce sound via direct attachments to the swim bladder or to bony plates attached to the swim bladder in certain catfish species.: 8–11  Because of...

from the foregut, the swim bladder in ray-finned fishes derives from a dorsal bud above the foregut. In early forms the swim bladder could still be used...

dried swim bladders of fish. The English word origin is from the obsolete Dutch huizenblaas – huizen is a kind of sturgeon, and blaas is a bladder, or German...

Devonian, the "Age of Fishes". Bony fish, distinguished by the presence of swim bladders and later ossified endoskeletons, emerged as the dominant group of fish...

are modified to create claspers for the transfer of sperm. There is no swim bladder; instead, these fish maintain buoyancy with large livers rich in oil...

ventricle, and conus. Perch have a swim bladder that helps control buoyancy or floating within the water, the swim bladder is only found in bony fish. In...

totoaba fish bladder kills off rare porpoise". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2019. Cannon, J.C. (1 May 2018). "More than 800 totoaba swim bladders confiscated...

Osteichthyes was considered a class, recognised on the presence of a swim bladder, only three pairs of gill arches hidden behind a bony operculum, and...

Fish with isolated swim bladders are susceptible to barotrauma of ascent when brought to the surface by fishing. The swim bladder is an organ of buoyancy...

spent air out through the gills. Gar and bowfin have a vascularized swim bladder that functions in the same way. Loaches, trahiras, and many catfish breathe...

piscis" literally means "bladder of a fish", reflecting the shape's resemblance to the conjoined dual air bladders (swim bladder) found in most fish. In...

notable characteristic of P. delhezi is its modified swim bladder. In bony fish, the swim bladder is an internal, gas-filled chamber, an organ that likely...

exceeds that in the swim bladder. At this point, the dissolved oxygen in the arterial capillaries diffuses into the swim bladder via the gas gland. The...

well-adapted for the underwater environment, using bone conduction, the swim bladder, and the inner ear. Most fish have sensitive receptors that form the...

facultative air breather and can obtain oxygen from air by sucking it into its swim bladder, which is lined with capillaries like lung tissue. Within Osteoglossinae...

lung/swim bladder originated as an outgrowth of the gut, forming a gas-filled bladder above the digestive system. In its primitive form, the air bladder was...

exceptions, they also have a highly vascularized swim bladder lung that supplements gill respiration. The bladder not only provides buoyancy, but also enables...

from the sonic membrane creating a vibration connection to the swim bladder. The swim bladder acts as a chamber to produce low and high-frequency sounds....