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- The Gymnotiformes /dʒɪmˈnɒtɪfɔːrmiːz/ are an order of teleost bony fishes commonly known as Neotropical knifefish or South American knifefish. They have...
- (Anguilliformes) but are members of the electroreceptive knifefish order Gymnotiformes. This order is more closely related to catfish. In 2019, electric eels...
- knifefishes are a family, Apteronotidae, of ray-finned fishes in the order Gymnotiformes. These fish are native to Panama and South America. They inhabit a wide...
- knifefishes (Gymnotiformes) and the African elephantfishes (Notopteroidei), enabling them to navigate and find food in turbid water. The Gymnotiformes include...
- (39%), but other groups with many species include Cichlidae (6%) and Gymnotiformes (3%). In addition to major differences in behavior and ecology, Amazonian...
- to that of the Gymnotiformes, with a few minor differences. S-units in Gymnarchus are time coders, like the T-units in Gymnotiformes. O-units code the...
- relatives are the Characiformes (characins, tetras and their kin), the Gymnotiformes (electric eel and American knifefishes), and the Siluriformes (catfishes)...
- over its body. This feature is apparently useful for hunting other Gymnotiformes. E. electricus has been prominent in the study of bioelectricity since...
- beaked salmons) and Gymnotiformes (South American knifefish), a superorder characterized by the Weberian apparatus. Some place Gymnotiformes as a sub-order...
- about 2,168 species Siluriformes (catfishes), about 3,813 species Gymnotiformes (electric eels, American knifefishes), about 239 species (sometimes...