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{{Short description|Gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of a fish to control its buoyancy}}
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[[File:Swim bladder.jpg|thumb|333px|{{center|The swim bladder of a [[Scardinius|rudd]]}}]]
[[File:Air bladder in a bleak.jpg|thumb|333px|{{center|Internal positioning of the swim bladder of a [[Alburnoides bipunctatus|bleak]]<br />S: anterior, S': posterior portion of the air bladder<br />œ: œsophagus; l: air passage of the air bladder}}]]

The '''swim bladder''', '''gas bladder''', '''fish maw''', or '''air bladder''' is an internal gas-filled [[Organ (anatomy)|organ]] that contributes to the ability of many [[bony fish]] (but not [[cartilaginous fish]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/actinopterygii/actinomm.html|title=More on Morphology|website=www.ucmp.berkeley.edu}}</ref>) to control their [[buoyancy]], and thus to stay at their current water depth without having to expend [[energy]] in swimming.<ref name="Orr">{{cite encyclopedia | title =Fish | encyclopedia =Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 1999  | publisher =Microsoft | year =1999}}</ref> Also, the [[Dorsum (biology)|dorsal]] position of the swim bladder means that the expansion of the bladder moves the [[center of mass]] downwards, allowing it to act as a stabilizing agent in some species. Additionally, the swim bladder functions as a [[resonator|resonating chamber]], to produce or receive sound.

The swim bladder is evolutionarily [[Homology (biology)|homologous]] to the [[lung]]s of [[tetrapod]]s and [[lungfish]]. [[Charles Darwin]] remarked upon this in ''[[On the Origin of Species]]''.<ref name=origin>Darwin, Charles (1859) [https://books.google.com/books?id=IQtjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA190 ''Origin of Species''] Page 190, reprinted 1872 by D. Appleton.</ref> Darwin reasoned that the lung in air-breathing vertebrates had derived from a more primitive swim bladder as a specialized form of [[enteral respiration]].

In the embryonic stages, some species, such as [[Ophioblennius atlanticus|redlip blenny]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nursall|first=J. R.|title=Buoyancy is provided by lipids of larval redlip blennies, Ophioblennius atlanticus|journal=Copeia|year=1989|volume=1989|issue=3|pages=614–621|doi=10.2307/1445488|jstor=1445488}}</ref> have lost the swim bladder again, mostly [[Benthic zone|bottom dwellers]] like the [[weather fish]]. Other fish—like the [[opah]] and the [[pomfret]]—use their [[Fish fin|pectoral fins]] to swim and balance the weight of the head to keep a horizontal position. The normally bottom dwelling [[sea robin]] can use their pectoral fins to produce lift while swimming.

The gas/tissue interface at the swim bladder produces a strong reflection of sound, which is used in [[sonar]] equipment to find fish.

[[Chondrichthyes|Cartilaginous fish]], such as [[shark]]s and [[ray (fish)|ray]]s, do not have swim bladders. Some of them can control their depth only by swimming (using [[dynamic lift (fish)|dynamic lift]]); others store fats or oils with density less than that of seawater to produce a neutral or near neutral buoyancy, which does not change with depth.

==Structure and function==
[[File:Oste023c labelled.png|thumb|right|360px|{{center|Swim bladder from a bony (teleost) fish}}]]
[[File:GasbladderpumpingEng.png|thumb|right|360px|How gas is pumped into the swim bladder using [[counter-current exchange]].]]

The swim bladder normally consists of two gas-filled sacs located in the [[Dorsum (biology)|dorsal]] portion of the fish, although in a few primitive species, there is only a single sac. It has flexible walls that contract or expand according to the ambient [[pressure]]. The walls of the bladder contain very few [[blood vessels]] and are lined with [[guanine]] crystals, which make them impermeable to gases. By adjusting the gas pressurising organ using the gas gland or oval window, the fish can obtain neutral buoyancy and ascend and descend to a large range of depths. Due to the dorsal position it gives the fish lateral stability.

In [[physostome|physostomous]] swim bladders, a connection is retained between the swim bladder and the [[Gut (zoology)|gut]], the pneumatic duct, allowing the fish to fill up the swim bladder by "gulping" air. Excess gas can be removed in a similar manner.

In more derived varieties of fish (the [[physoclisti]]) the connection to the digestive tract is lost. In early life stages, these fish must rise to the surface to fill up their swim bladders; in later stages, the pneumatic duct disappears, and the [[gas gland]] has to introduce gas (usually [[oxygen]]) to the bladder to increase its [[volume]] and thus increase [[buoyancy]]. This process begins with the acidification of the blood in the ''[[rete mirabile]]'' when the gas gland excretes [[lactic acid]] and produces [[carbon dioxide]], the latter of which acidifies the blood via the [[bicarbonate buffer system]]. The resulting acidity causes the [[hemoglobin]] of the blood to lose its oxygen ([[Root effect]]) which then [[diffusion|diffuses]] partly into the swim bladder. Before returning to the body, the blood re-enters the ''rete mirabile'', and as a result, virtually all the excess carbon dioxide and oxygen produced in the gas gland diffuses back to the arteries supplying the gas gland via a [[countercurrent exchange|countercurrent multiplication loop]]. Thus a very high gas pressure of oxygen can be obtained, which can even account for the presence of gas in the swim bladders of deep sea fish like the [[eel]], requiring a pressure of hundreds of [[bar (unit)|bars]].<ref name=Pelster2001>{{cite journal |author=Pelster B |title=The generation of hyperbaric oxygen tensions in fish |journal=News Physiol. Sci. |volume=16 |issue= 6 |pages=287–91 |date=December 2001 |pmid=11719607 |doi= 10.1152/physiologyonline.2001.16.6.287 |s2cid=11198182 }}</ref> Elsewhere, at a similar structure known as the 'oval window', the bladder is in contact with blood and the oxygen can diffuse back out again. Together with oxygen, other gases are salted out{{clarify|date=May 2014}}<!--what does salted out mean?--> in the swim bladder which accounts for the high pressures of other gases as well.<ref name="biolbull.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/3/440 |title=Secretion Of Nitrogen Into The Swimbladder Of Fish. Ii. Molecular Mechanism. Secretion Of Noble Gases |publisher=Biolbull.org |date=1981-12-01 |access-date=2013-06-24}}</ref>

The combination of gases in the bladder varies. In shallow water fish, the ratios closely approximate that of the [[Earth's atmosphere|atmosphere]], while deep sea fish tend to have higher percentages of oxygen. For instance, the [[eel]] ''[[Synaphobranchus]]'' has been observed to have 75.1% oxygen, 20.5% [[nitrogen]], 3.1% [[carbon dioxide]], and 0.4% [[argon]] in its swim bladder.

Physoclist swim bladders have one important disadvantage: they prohibit fast rising, as the bladder would burst. [[Physostome]]s can "burp" out gas, though this complicates the process of re-submergence.

The swim bladder in some species, mainly fresh water fishes ([[common carp]], [[catfish]], [[bowfin]]) is interconnected with the [[inner ear]] of the fish. They are connected by four bones called the [[Weberian ossicles]] from the [[Weberian apparatus]]. These bones can carry the vibrations to the [[saccule]] and the [[lagena (anatomy)|lagena]]. They are suited for detecting sound and vibrations due to its low density in comparison to the density of the fish's body tissues. This increases the ability of sound detection.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution |last=Kardong |first=Kenneth |publisher=New York: McGraw-Hill Education |isbn=9780073524238 |pages=701 |date=2011-02-16}}</ref> The swim bladder can radiate the pressure of sound which help increase its sensitivity and expand its hearing. In some deep sea fishes like the ''[[Antimora]]'', the swim bladder maybe also connected to the [[macula of saccule]] in order for the inner ear to receive a sensation from the sound pressure.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Deng |first1=Xiaohong |last2=Wagner |first2=Hans-Joachim |last3=Popper |first3=Arthur N. |date=2011-01-01 |title=The inner ear and its coupling to the swim bladder in the deep-sea fish Antimora rostrata (Teleostei: Moridae) |journal=Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=27–37 |doi=10.1016/j.dsr.2010.11.001 |pmc=3082141 |pmid=21532967 |bibcode=2011DSRI...58...27D }}</ref>
In [[red-bellied piranha]], the swim bladder may play an important role in sound production as a resonator. The sounds created by piranhas are generated through rapid contractions of the sonic muscles and is associated with the swim bladder.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Onuki |first=A |author2=Ohmori Y. |author3=Somiya H. |title=Spinal Nerve Innervation to the Sonic Muscle and Sonic Motor Nucleus in Red Piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri (Characiformes, Ostariophysi) |journal=Brain, Behavior and Evolution |date=January 2006 |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=11–122 |doi=10.1159/000089185 |pmid=16254416 |s2cid=7395840 }}</ref>

[[Teleost]]s are thought to lack a sense of absolute [[hydrostatic pressure]], which could be used to determine absolute depth.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bone |first1=Q. |last2=Moore |first2=Richard H. |title=Biology of fishes |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9780415375627 |edition=3rd., Thoroughly updated and rev |year=2008 }}</ref> However, it has been suggested that teleosts may be able to determine their depth by sensing the rate of change of swim-bladder volume.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Graham K. |last2=Holbrook |first2=Robert Iain |last3=de Perera |first3=Theresa Burt |title=Fractional rate of change of swim-bladder volume is reliably related to absolute depth during vertical displacements in teleost fish |journal=Journal of the Royal Society Interface |date=6 September 2010 |volume=7 |issue=50 |pages=1379–1382 |doi=10.1098/rsif.2009.0522 |pmid=20190038 |pmc=2894882 }}</ref>

==Evolution==
[[File:PSM V20 D769 Lepidosiren annectens using the air bladder as a lung.jpg|thumb|left|The [[West African lungfish]] possesses a lung homologous to swim bladders]]

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Swim bladders are evolutionarily closely related (i.e., [[homology (biology)|homologous]]) to [[lung]]s. The first lungs originated in the last common ancestor of the [[Actinopterygii]] (ray-finned fish) and [[Sarcopterygii]] (lobe-finned fish and the [[tetrapod]]s) as expansions of the upper digestive tract which allowed them to gulp air under oxygen-poor conditions.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YRcAVvmE6eMC&dq=Lungs+primitive+condition+bony+fishes+upper+digestive+tract+pharynx&pg=PA162 Encyclopedia of Evolution]</ref> In the [[Actinopteri]] (ray-finned fish minus the [[bichir]]s) the lungs evolved into a swim bladder (secondary absent in some lineages), which unlike lungs that bud ventrally, buds dorsally from the anterior foregut.<ref>[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33538055/ Does the bowfin gas bladder represent an intermediate stage during the lung-to-gas bladder evolutionary transition?]</ref><ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421000891 Tracing the genetic footprints of vertebrate landing in non-teleost ray-finned fishes]</ref> [[Coelacanth]]s have a "fatty organ" that have sometimes been referred to as a swim bladder, but is structurally different and have a separate evolutionary history.<ref>[https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9222 Allometric growth in the extant coelacanth lung during ontogenetic development]</ref>

In 1997, Farmer proposed that lungs evolved to supply the heart with oxygen. In fish, blood circulates from the gills to the skeletal muscle, and only then to the heart. During intense exercise, the oxygen in the blood gets used by the skeletal muscle before the blood reaches the heart. Primitive lungs gave an advantage by supplying the heart with oxygenated blood via the cardiac shunt. This theory is robustly supported by the fossil record, the ecology of extant air-breathing fishes, and the physiology of extant fishes.<ref name="farmer">{{Cite journal|last1=Farmer|first1=Colleen|title=Did lungs and the intracardiac shunt evolve to oxygenate the heart in vertebrates|journal=Paleobiology|volume=23|issue=3|pages=358–372|year=1997|url=http://biologylabs.utah.edu/farmer/manuscripts/1997%20Paleobiology23.pdf|doi=10.1017/S0094837300019734|s2cid=87285937 }}</ref> In [[embryo]]nal development, both lung and swim bladder originate as an outpocketing from the gut; in the case of swim bladders, this connection to the gut continues to exist as the pneumatic duct in the more "primitive" ray-finned fish, and is lost in some of the more derived teleost orders.  There are no animals which have both lungs and a swim bladder.

As an adaptation to migrations between the surface and deeper waters, some fish have evolved a swim bladder where the gas is replaced with low-density [[wax ester]]s as a way to cope with [[Boyle's law]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=e2N4AgAAQBAJ&dq=swimbladders+low-density+wax+esters+lift&pg=PA109 Biology of Fishes]</ref>

The [[Chondrichthyes|cartilaginous fish]] (e.g., sharks and rays) split from the other fishes about 420 million years ago, and lack both lungs and swim bladders, suggesting that these structures evolved after that split.<ref name="farmer"/> Correspondingly, these fish also have both [[Protocercal|heterocercal]] and stiff, wing-like [[pectoral fin]]s  which provide the necessary lift needed due to the lack of swim bladders. Teleost fish with swim bladders have neutral buoyancy, and have no need for this lift.<ref>Kardong, KV (1998) ''Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution''2nd edition, illustrated, revised. Published by WCB/McGraw-Hill, p. 12 {{ISBN|0-697-28654-1}}</ref>

==Sonar reflectivity==
The swim bladder of a fish can strongly reflect sound of an appropriate frequency. Strong reflection happens if the frequency is tuned to the volume resonance of the swim bladder. This can be calculated by knowing a number of properties of the fish, notably the volume of the swim bladder, although the well-accepted method for doing so<ref name="Love_1978">{{cite journal|last1=Love R. H. |title=Resonant acoustic scattering by swimbladder-bearing fish|journal= J. Acoust. Soc. Am.|year=1978 |volume=64 |issue=2|pages=571–580 |doi=10.1121/1.382009|bibcode=1978ASAJ...64..571L}}</ref> requires correction factors for gas-bearing zooplankton where the radius of the swim bladder is less than about 5 cm.<ref name="Baik_2013">{{cite journal|last1=Baik K. |title=Comment on "Resonant acoustic scattering by swimbladder-bearing fish" [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 64, 571–580 (1978)] (L)|journal= J. Acoust. Soc. Am.|year=2013 |volume=133 |issue=1|pages=5–8 |doi=10.1121/1.4770261|pmid=23297876|bibcode=2013ASAJ..133....5B}}</ref> This is important, since sonar scattering is used to estimate the biomass of commercially- and environmentally-important fish species.

==Deep scattering layer==
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[[File:california headlightfish.png|thumb|260px|right|Most mesopelagic fishes are small [[filter feeder]]s which ascend at night using their swimbladders to feed in the nutrient rich waters of the [[epipelagic zone]]. During the day, they return to the dark, cold, oxygen deficient waters of the mesopelagic where they are relatively safe from predators. [[Lanternfish]] account for as much as 65 percent of all deep sea fish [[biomass]] and are largely responsible for the [[deep scattering layer]] of the world's oceans.]]

Sonar operators, using the newly developed sonar technology during World War II, were puzzled by what appeared to be a false sea floor 300–500 metres deep at day, and less deep at night. This turned out to be due to millions of marine organisms, most particularly small mesopelagic fish, with swimbladders that reflected the sonar. These organisms migrate up into shallower water at dusk to feed on plankton. The layer is deeper when the moon is out, and can become shallower when clouds obscure the moon.<ref name="TeAraMZ">Ryan P [http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/SeaLife/DeepSeaCreatures/2/en "Deep-sea creatures: The mesopelagic zone"] ''Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand''. Updated 21 September 2007.</ref>

Most mesopelagic fish make daily [[Diel vertical migration|vertical migration]]s, moving at night into the epipelagic zone, often following similar migrations of zooplankton, and returning to the depths for safety during the day.<ref name="Moyle585">{{cite book|last1=Moyle|first1=Peter B.|last2=Cech|first2=Joseph J.|title=Fishes : an introduction to ichthyology|date=2004|publisher=Pearson/Prentice Hall|location=Upper Saddle River, N.J.|isbn=9780131008472|page=585|edition=5th}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Bone|first1=Quentin|last2=Moore|first2=Richard H.|title=Biology of fishes|date=2008|publisher=Taylor & Francis|location=New York|isbn=9780203885222|page=38|edition=3rd|chapter=Chapter 2.3. Marine habitats. Mesopelagic fishes}}</ref> These vertical migrations often occur over large 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 pressures in the mesoplegic zone, this requires significant energy. As the fish ascends, the pressure in the swimbladder must adjust to prevent it from bursting. When the fish wants to return to the depths, the swimbladder is deflated.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Douglas | first1 = EL | last2 = Friedl | first2 = WA | last3 = Pickwell | first3 = GV | year = 1976 | title = Fishes in oxygen-minimum zones: blood oxygenation characteristics | url = http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/191/4230/957 | journal = Science | volume = 191 | issue = 4230| pages = 957–959 | doi = 10.1126/science.1251208 | pmid = 1251208 | bibcode = 1976Sci...191..957D }}</ref> Some mesopelagic fishes make daily migrations through the [[thermocline]], where the temperature changes between 10 and 20&nbsp;°C, thus displaying considerable tolerance for temperature change.

Sampling via deep [[trawling]] indicates that [[lanternfish]] account for as much as 65% of all deep sea fish [[biomass]].<ref name=EoF>{{cite book |editor=Paxton, J.R. |editor2=Eschmeyer, W.N.|author= Hulley, P. Alexander|year=1998|title=Encyclopedia of Fishes|publisher= Academic Press|location=San Diego|pages= 127–128|isbn= 978-0-12-547665-2}}</ref> Indeed, lanternfish are among the most widely distributed, populous, and diverse of all [[vertebrate]]s, playing an important [[ecology|ecological]] role as prey for larger organisms. The estimated global biomass of lanternfish is 550–660 million [[tonne]]s, several times the annual world fisheries catch. Lanternfish also account for much of the biomass responsible for the [[deep scattering layer]] of the world's oceans. [[Sonar]] reflects off the millions of lanternfish swim bladders, giving the appearance of a false bottom.<ref>{{cite web |title=Deep-sea fish diversity and ecology in the benthic boundary layer |author1=R. Cornejo |author2=R. Koppelmann |author3=T. Sutton |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/os06-sessions/os06_OS45Q.html |access-date=2015-03-26 |archive-date=2013-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601024839/http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/os06-sessions/os06_OS45Q.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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==Human uses==
In the East Asian culinary sphere, the swim bladders of certain large fishes are considered a food delicacy. In Chinese cuisine, they are known as ''fish maw'', 花膠/鱼鳔,<ref>Teresa M.  (2009) [https://books.google.com/books?id=D68I9MshwM4C&pg=PA70 ''A Tradition of Soup: Flavors from China's Pearl River Delta''] Page 70, North Atlantic Books. {{ISBN|9781556437656}}.</ref> and are served in soups or stews.

The vanity price of a vanishing kind of maw is behind the imminent extinction of the [[vaquita]], the world's smallest porpoise species. Found only in Mexico's [[Gulf of California]], the once numerous vaquita are now critically endangered.<ref>{{Cite iucn | author = Rojas-Bracho, L. | author2 = Taylor, B.L. | name-list-style = amp | title = Vaquita (''Phocoena sinus'') | volume = 2017 | date = 2017 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T17028A214541137.en | access-date= 14 October 2022}}</ref> Vaquita die in [[gillnets]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.iucn-csg.org/index.php/2016/06/06/extinction-is-imminent-new-report-from-vaquita-recovery-team-cirva-is-released/|title='Extinction Is Imminent': New report from Vaquita Recovery Team (CIRVA) is released|date=2016-06-06|newspaper=IUCN SSC - Cetacean Specialist Group|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-25|archive-date=2019-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103060447/http://www.iucn-csg.org/index.php/2016/06/06/extinction-is-imminent-new-report-from-vaquita-recovery-team-cirva-is-released/|url-status=dead}}</ref> set to catch [[totoaba]] (the world's largest [[drum fish]]). Totoaba are being hunted to extinction for its maw, which can sell for as much $10,000 per kilogram.

Swim bladders are also used in the food industry as a source of [[collagen]]. They can be made into a strong, water-resistant glue, or used to make [[isinglass]] for the clarification of [[beer]].<ref>[[Bridge, T. W.]] (1905) [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/j.2050-0416.1905.tb02147.x] "The Natural History of Isinglass"</ref> In earlier times, they were used to make [[condom]]s.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Huxley | first1 = Julian | author-link = Julian Huxley | year = 1957 | title = Material of early contraceptive sheaths | journal = British Medical Journal | volume = 1 | issue = 5018| pages = 581–582 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.1.5018.581-b | pmc = 1974678 }}</ref>

==Swim bladder disease==
[[Swim bladder disease]] is a common ailment in [[aquarium fish]]. A fish with swim bladder disorder can float nose down tail up, or can float to the top or sink to the bottom of the aquarium.<ref name=Johnson>Johnson, Erik L. and Richard E. Hess (2006) ''Fancy Goldfish: A Complete Guide to Care and Collecting'', Weatherhill, Shambhala Publications, Inc. {{ISBN|0-8348-0448-4}}</ref>

==Risk of injury==

Many [[Human impact on the environment|anthropogenic]] activities, such as [[pile driving]] or even [[seismic waves]], can create high-intensity sound waves that cause internal injury to fish that possess a gas bladder. 
Physoclisti can not expel air quickly enough from the gas bladder, the organ most susceptible to sonic damage, thus making it difficult for them to escape major injury. Physostomes, on the other hand, ''can'' release air from their gas bladder expeditiously enough to protect it; nevertheless, they can not relieve pressure in their other vital organs, and are therefore also vulnerable to injury.<ref name="Halvorsen">{{Cite journal |last1=Halvorsen|first1=Michele B.|last2=Casper|first2=Brandon M.|last3=Matthews|first3=Frazer|last4=Carlson|first4=Thomas J. |last5=Popper |first5=Arthur N.|date=2012-12-07|title=Effects of exposure to pile-driving sounds on the lake sturgeon, Nile tilapia and hogchoker |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|volume=279|issue=1748|pages=4705–4714 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2012.1544 |issn=0962-8452|pmc=3497083|pmid=23055066}}</ref> Some of the commonly seen injuries include ruptured gas bladder and renal [[Haemorrhage]]. These mostly affect the overall health of the fish but not their mortality rate.<ref name="Halvorsen" /> Investigators employed the High-Intensity-Controlled Impedance-Fluid-Filled (HICI-FT), a stainless-steel wave tube with an electromagnetic shaker. It simulates high-energy sound waves in aquatic far-field, plane-wave acoustic conditions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Halvorsen |first1=Michele B. |last2=Casper|first2=Brandon M. |last3=Woodley|first3=Christa M.|last4=Carlson|first4=Thomas J.|last5=Popper|first5=Arthur N. |date=2012-06-20|title=Threshold for Onset of Injury in Chinook Salmon from Exposure to Impulsive Pile Driving Sounds |journal=PLOS ONE|volume=7|issue=6 |pages=e38968 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0038968 |issn=1932-6203|pmc=3380060 |pmid=22745695|bibcode=2012PLoSO...738968H |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beo6clij9YAC&q=hici-ft&pg=PA234|title=The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life|last1=Popper|first1=Arthur N.|last2=Hawkins|first2=Anthony|date=2012-01-26|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9781441973115 |language=en}}</ref>

==Similar structures in other organisms==
[[Siphonophores]] have a special swim bladder that allows the jellyfish-like colonies to float along the surface of the water while their tentacles trail below. This organ is unrelated to the one in fish.<ref name="Clark1961">{{cite journal|last=Clark|first=F. E.|author2=C. E. Lane |year=1961|title=Composition of float gases of Physalia physalis|journal=Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine|volume=107|issue=3|pages=673–674|doi=10.3181/00379727-107-26724|pmid=13693830|s2cid=2687386}}</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:Melaka-mall-Fish-maw-kiosk-2267.jpg|Swim bladder display in a [[Malacca]] shopping mall
File:Fish maw soup.jpg|Fish maw soup
File:Goldfish with swim bladder disease.JPG|[[Swim bladder disease]] has resulted in this female [[ryukin]] goldfish floating upside down
</gallery>

==References==
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==Further references==
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* Bond, Carl E. (1996) ''Biology of Fishes'', 2nd ed., Saunders, pp.&nbsp;283–290.
* Pelster, Bernd (1997) [https://books.google.com/books?id=E_yI3mB2QI8C&q=%22Deep-sea+fishes%22 "Buoyancy at depth"] In: WS Hoar, DJ Randall and AP Farrell (Eds)  ''Deep-Sea Fishes'', pages 195–237, Academic Press. {{ISBN|9780080585406}}.

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