- and jaws.
Apteronotids use a high
frequency tone-type (also
called wave-type)
electric organ discharge (EOD) to communicate. Many
Apteronotids are aggressive...
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Apteronotus rostratus is a
species of
apteronotid electric fish.
These fish
typically exhibit a wide
diversity of
skull shapes,
ranging from
highly elongate...
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Compsaraia samueli, the
pelican knifefish, is a
species of
apteronotid electric fish from the
western Amazon basin of
Brazil and Peru. It
exhibits pronounced...
- of this
unique feature.
Sternarchogiton are
distinguished from
other apteronotid genera by
details of the
skull and the
broad descending blades of the...
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compared to the body size of the fish. The
caudal fin is absent, or in the
apteronotids,
greatly reduced. The gill
opening is restricted. The anal
opening is...
-
positive baseline (the EOD of most
apteronotids have both
positive and
negative spikes). The only
other apteronotid known to have a
monophasic EOD is the...
- and
sternon +
archos ("chest" + "****", a
commonly used name for
apteronotids that
refers to the
anterior position of the
urogenital opening). From...
- Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) from the
upper rio Paraná
basin in Brazil, with a key to the
apteronotid species from the area.
Vertebrate Zoology, 61 (3): 299–306....
- Sternarc****a
calhamazon n. sp., the Amazon’s most
abundant species of
apteronotid electric fish, with a note on the
taxonomic status of
Sternarchus capanemae...
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speculated to
function in
electroreception for
locating prey. Like
other apteronotids,
these fish
generate a
continuous weak
electric field for the purposes...
