Expedient classification of fishes’ hearing abilities based on detected frequency can inform potential impacts of anthropogenic noise on fish communities. Nevertheless, literature on fish hearing is discordant in methodology and limited to a small fraction of known species. The literature on fish audition (N = 63) supported four classes associated with swim bladder specialization: species without swim bladders, those with unmodified and modified swim bladders, and those with Weberian ossicles or bullae. These classes were compared for audition (detected frequency) in addition to the effects of methodology and imposed sound type on detected frequency. Maximum and optimum frequencies that fish detected increased with swim bladder presence and elaboration. Methods of testing audition and the form of sound measured affected the maximum and optimum frequencies detected by fish, but when statistically accounted for did not affect the rankings of hearing classes. Although the review supported frequency detection tied to swim bladder specialization, true hearing performance remains poorly known owing to the limited number of studies that have evaluated how fish perceive sound as particle motion rather than sound pressure.

根据检测到的频率对鱼类的听觉能力进行方便的分类，可以告知人为噪声对鱼类群落的潜在影响。然而，有关鱼类听力的文献在方法学上并不统一，并且仅限于一小部分已知物种。关于鱼类试听的文献（N = 63）支持与游泳膀胱专业化相关的四类：无游泳膀胱的物种，未经修饰和经改良的游泳膀胱的物种以及具有韦氏小骨或大疱的物种。除了方法论的影响和声音类型对检测频率的影响外，还对这些类别的听觉（检测频率）进行了比较。鱼的最大和最佳频率随着游泳膀胱的存在和细化而增加。测试听觉的方法和测得的声音形式会影响鱼类检测到的最大和最佳频率，但是从统计学上讲，这并不会影响听力等级。尽管该评论支持与游泳膀胱专业化相关的频率检测，