Talk:Gas bladder

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"Swim bladder" has more Google hits, but apparently it's no longer favored (see [1] or Bond's text for example), so I made an executive decision to put it under the correct term rather than the popular one. Stan 16:41, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)

(...) evolved into the lungs of today's vertebrates and into the gas bladders of today's fish.

I changed "vertebrates" to "terrestrial vertebrates" to make the distinction clearer. There are (as always in nature...) exceptions: non-terrestrial vertebrates with lungs (lungfish and other fishes, sea snakes and turtles, cetaceans), and fishes without gas bladders (apart from lungfishes e.g. sharks), but these are cf. rare.

Don't forget about whales, dolphins, and other marine mammilia. Siraf 23:20, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Aragorn2 23:47, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I removed the split infinitive. I can't help it.

--59.167.194.95 10:29, 31 October 2006 (UTC) Grammar Nazi

[edit] Gas Bladder vs. Swim Bladder

It should be noted that there is a difference between gas bladders and swim bladders, gas bladders are a more primitive stage, which actually allows some fish (Karp) to breath air, the swim bladder is primarily marine, and can't be used to breath air directly.

Siraf 23:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I think the title of this article should be "swim bladder" and not "gas bladder". It is true that fishbase [2] advises against "swim bladder", but whenever fishbase refers to this organ, it invariably uses the term "swim bladder". Some examples are [3], [4]. (I know of no exceptions.) Where what is practised differs from what is preached, Wikipedia should follow the former. Thunderbird2 09:50, 19 June 2007 (UTC)