air bladder
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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
Many fish therefore evolved an internal air bladder that vibrates with passing sounds.
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
In Campostoma, the long gut is transversely coiled around the air bladder, whereas in Semotilus the gut forms a longitudinal, flattened, S-shaped loop, ventral to the air bladder.
From Five Natural Hybrid Combinations in Minnows (Cyprinidae) by Cross, Frank B.
