air bladder

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Many fish therefore evolved an internal air bladder that vibrates with passing sounds.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

Otophysan fish improved this pathway by adding small bony "ossicles" that connect the air bladder, often mistakenly called the swim bladder, to the inner ear.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

They’re a long, thin fish that can breathe air through an air bladder like a lung and can live up to four days out of water if they’re kept moist, experts said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2022

The laces had to be undone before an interior air bladder was filled and tied with a thread; then the laces were retied.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2014

The intestine has two diagonal loops crossing the ventral part of the body cavity, and the hindgut lies high in the cavity, along the left side of the air bladder.

From Five Natural Hybrid Combinations in Minnows (Cyprinidae) by Cross, Frank B.