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Series of grating sounds produced with their teeth.
There are some knocking sounds present in this recording. From CD Supplement to: Sounds of the Western North Atlantic Fishes by Fish & Mowbray, 1970. CD Copyright University of Rhode Island, 2001
The bigeye scad is found in clear oceanic tropical waters worldwide. Occurring in schools as large as hundreds of thousands of individuals, it is a highly commercial species. The life of a bigeye scad is brief. Fish may mature by seven months and live only two years. Spawning has been reported to occur at night during April through September in Hawaii. As a fast growing, short lived species bigeye scad are highly
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Rasping sounds emitted from individuals are commonly observed during capture. These sounds are produced by grinding of the pharyngeal teeth. Enormous schools may collectively produce low-frequency
sounds while swimming.
