- needed] The
retina is
called a "grouped retina", an eye
structure seen in
mormyrids and a few
other fishes.
Instead of
being smooth,
their retina is composed...
- bird or mammal. However, some fish have
relatively large brains,
notably mormyrids and sharks,
which have
brains about as
large for
their body
weight as...
-
Mormyrus longirostris,
commonly referred as the
eastern bottle-nosed
mormyrid, is a medium-sized ray-finned fish
species belonging to the
family Mormyridae...
- 1007/bf00002795. S2CID 109426. Bennett, M. V. L. (1965). "Electroreceptors in
Mormyrids". Cold
Spring Harbor Symposia on
Quantitative Biology. 30 (30): 245–262...
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English include elephantnose fish, long-nosed
elephant fish, and
Ubangi mormyrid,
after the
Ubangi River. The
Latin name
petersii is
probably for the German...
-
Extinct in the wild (EW): 6
species Critically endangered (CR): 455
species Endangered (EN): 643
species Vulnerable (VU): 1,245
species Near...
-
spoken words, but with
inner language - the
quiet production of words. The
mormyrid electric fish
provides an
example of
corollary discharge in
lower vertebrates...
- electrolocation.
There has been
convergent evolution in
these features among the
mormyrids and gymnotids.
Electric fish
species that live in
habitats with few obstructions...
-
Although usually smaller than the cerebrum, in some
animals such as the
mormyrid fishes it may be as
large as it or even larger. In humans, the cerebellum...
- mammal. However, some fish have
relatively large brains, most
notably mormyrids and sharks,
which have
brains about as m****ive
relative to body weight...
