-
secondarily lost
their ampullae of Lorenzini, but
other non-homologous
electroreceptors have
repeatedly evolved,
including in two
groups of mammals, the monotremes...
- The
front part of the olm's head
carries sensitive chemo-, mechano-, and
electroreceptors....
-
Ampullae of
Lorenzini (sg.: ampulla) are
electroreceptors,
sense organs able to
detect electric fields. They form a
network of mucus-filled
pores in the...
-
indeed p****ive ampullary-type
electroreceptors used by
American paddlefish to
detect plankton.
Clusters of
electroreceptors also
cover the head and operculum...
- when it dives.
Digging in the
bottom of
streams with its bill, its
electroreceptors detect tiny
electric currents generated by the
muscular contractions...
- Paddlefish,
goblin sharks and
hammerhead sharks have
rostrums packed with
electroreceptors which signal the
presence of prey by
detecting weak
electrical fields...
-
adult amphibians. Many
aquatic salamanders and some
caecilians possess electroreceptors called ampullary organs (completely
absent in anurans), that allow...
- und
Ontogonie (in German). 42: 91–148. Bennett, M. V. L. (1965). "
Electroreceptors in mormyrids". Cold
Spring Harbor Symposia on
Quantitative Biology...
- aid of
electron microscopy that
paddlefish rostrums are
covered in
electroreceptors called ampullae.
These ampullae are
densely packed within star-shaped...
-
burrowing prey. This is
similar to the platypus,
which has 40,000
electroreceptors on its bill, but the long-beaked
echidna has only 2,000,
while the...
