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
The habit is also common to some species of mud fishes of the order Dipneusti, in which the air bladder plays the part of lungs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
