- An
electric fish is any
fish that can
generate electric fields,
whether to
sense things around them, for defence, or to stun prey. Most
fish able to produce...
- In biology, the
electric organ is an
organ that an
electric fish uses to
create an
electric field.
Electric organs are
derived from
modified muscle or...
- The
electric eels are a genus, Electrophorus, of
neotropical freshwater fish from
South America in the
family Gymnotidae. They are
known for
their ability...
- A
fish (pl.:
fish or
fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing
vertebrate animal with
swimming fins and a hard skull, but
lacking limbs with digits...
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generate electric fields. Both are used to
locate prey;
stronger electric discharges are used in a few
groups of
fishes (most
famously the
electric eel, which...
- The
electric rays are a
group of rays,
flattened cartilaginous fish with
enlarged pectoral fins,
composing the
order Torpediniformes /tɔːrˈpɛdɪnɪfɔːrmiːz/...
- bioelectrogenesis. They are
unique among electric fish in not
possessing electroreceptors,
meaning that they do not use an
electric sense to
locate prey. Stargazers...
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mostly nocturnal fish are
capable of
producing electric fields to
detect prey, for navigation, communication, and, in the case of the
electric eel (Electrophorus...
-
shocks from
electric fish.
Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BCE
described them as the "protectors" of all
other fish.
Electric fish were
again reported...
- to find a mate. Peters's
elephantnose fish live to
about 6–10 years. The
elephant nose
fish is
weakly electric,
meaning that it can
detect moving prey...
