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With rare exceptions these values are presented from experiments using a speaker as the stimulus, thus making it impossible to truly separate the contribution of direct particle displacement and pressure detection in the response. Here we compare the particle acceleration and pressure auditory thresholds of three species of fish with differing hearing specialisations, Goldfish (Carassius auratus; weberian ossicles), bigeye (Pempheris adspersus hearing specialisation) and a third species with no swim bladder, the common triplefin (Forstergyian lappillum), using three different methods of determining particle accelerations. In terms of particle acceleration all three fish species have similar hearing thresholds, but when expressed as pressure thresholds goldfish are the most sensitive followed by bigeye, with triplefin the least sensitive. It is suggested here that all fish have a similar ability to detect the particle motion component of the sound field and it is their ability to transduce the pressure component of the sound field to the inner ear via ancillary hearing structures that provides the differences in hearing ability. 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