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Kamis, 2026-05-21 06:56:56needed] 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...
Click to read more »Peters's elephantnose fish
Jumat, 2026-03-27 16:15:09English include elephantnose fish, long-nosed elephant fish, and Ubangi mormyrid, after the Ubangi River. The Latin name petersii is probably for the German...
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Kamis, 2026-05-28 00:18:13bird or mammal. However, some fish have relatively large brains, notably mormyrids and sharks, which have brains about as large for their body weight as...
Click to read more »Mormyrus longirostris
Rabu, 2026-05-20 05:06:30Mormyrus longirostris, commonly referred as the eastern bottle-nosed mormyrid, is a medium-sized ray-finned fish species belonging to the family Mormyridae...
Click to read more »Electroreception and electrogenesis
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 16:24:40doi:10.1007/bf00002795. Bennett, M. V. L. (1965). "Electroreceptors in Mormyrids". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 30 (30): 245–262...
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Minggu, 2026-02-22 02:48:50electrolocation. There has been convergent evolution in these features among the mormyrids and gymnotids. Electric fish species that live in habitats with few obstructions...
Click to read more »List of vulnerable fishes
Senin, 2026-05-25 00:25:10Extinct in the wild (EW): 11 species Critically endangered (CR): 906 species Endangered (EN): 1,533 species Vulnerable (VU): 1,740 species Near...
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Selasa, 2026-01-13 09:40:17schizophrenia patients and healthy control subjects, for example. The mormyrid electric fish provides an example of corollary discharge in lower vertebrates...
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Senin, 2026-06-08 14:36:39as the Chicago Surrealist Group, the Leeds Surrealist Group, Peculiar Mormyrid, and The Surrealist Group in Stockholm. Jan Švankmajer of the Czech-Slovak...
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Selasa, 2026-03-24 05:50:09Pellegrin, 1927 (Sanaga mormyrid) Mormyrops citernii Vinciguerra, 1912 (Genale mormyrid) Mormyrops curtus Boulenger, 1899 (Boma mormyrid) Mormyrops curviceps...
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Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:53:30numenius Campylomormyrus phantasticus Campylomormyrus rhynchophorus Wormjawed mormyrid (Campylomormyrus tamandua) Campylomormyrus tshokwe Zambezi parrotfish (Cyphomyrus...
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Selasa, 2026-04-14 17:36:32Although 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...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus frieli
Sabtu, 2024-11-16 01:06:06Petrocephalus frieli is a species of weakly electric fish in the family Mormyridae, commonly known as elephantfishes. This species was described in 2012...
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Jumat, 2025-12-19 19:00:48mammal. However, some fish have relatively large brains, most notably mormyrids and sharks, which have brains about as massive relative to body weight...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus keatingii
Kamis, 2025-02-20 22:21:30Petrocephalus keatingii is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found only from the White Nile between Sobat confluence and Khartoum. This...
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Jumat, 2025-06-20 10:30:43mikroscopischen Anatomie der Mormyriden" [On the Microscopic Anatomy of the Mormyrids]. Zoologische Jahrbücher / Abteilung für Anatomie und Ontogonie der Tiere...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus christyi
Senin, 2025-11-17 06:38:39Petrocephalus christyi is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found in Africa, being widespread in the Congo River basin, from the rapids...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus degeni
Sabtu, 2024-11-16 00:50:12Petrocephalus degeni is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found in Africa, in both the Katonga River and Lake Victoria. This species...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus hutereaui
Senin, 2025-11-17 06:37:06Petrocephalus hutereaui is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, Africa. It is only known from the type locality in the Uélé system of the...
Click to read more »Convergent evolution
Kamis, 2026-06-04 21:25:49waveform A gymnotiform electric fish of South America A mormyrid electric fish of Africa A mormyrid electrolocation waveform One of the best-known examples...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus cunganus
Senin, 2026-03-23 16:32:38Petrocephalus cunganus is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found only in the Atlantic coastal Cuanza River in Angola. This species...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 01:59:05(Chiloglanis and Malawi squeaker Synodontis njassae), Mastacembelus spiny eel, mormyrids (Marcusenius, Mormyrops and Petrocephalus), the African tetra Brycinus...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus odzalaensis
Selasa, 2024-11-19 13:49:05Petrocephalus odzalaensis is a species of weakly electric fish in the family Mormyridae, commonly known as elephantfishes. This species was described in...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 04:15:23bottlenose mormyrid) Mormyrus macrocephalus Worthington, 1929 (largehead mormyrid) Mormyrus macrophthalmus Günther, 1866 (Niger mormyrid) Mormyrus niloticus...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus mbossou
Selasa, 2024-12-03 10:38:27Petrocephalus mbossou is a species of weakly electric fish in the family Mormyridae, commonly known as elephantfishes. This species was described in 2010...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus valentini
Sabtu, 2024-11-16 01:11:48Petrocephalus valentini is a species of weakly electric fish in the family Mormyridae, commonly known as elephantfishes. This species was described in...
Click to read more »List of data deficient fishes
Rabu, 2025-06-04 09:56:50Extinct in the wild (EW): 11 species Critically endangered (CR): 906 species Endangered (EN): 1,533 species Vulnerable (VU): 1,740 species Near...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 03:59:38Notopteroidei. In either case, the mormyriformes include the gymnarchids and mormyrids and represent the largest superfamily within the order Osteoglossiformes...
Click to read more »Hepsetus odoe
Senin, 2026-06-08 02:45:41of cichlids and mormyrids; although smaller individuals have been recorded eating mochokid catfishes more than cichlids or mormyrids. Hepsetus odoe prefers...
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Rabu, 2026-05-27 12:30:21victorianus), Kisinja (Barbus spp), Nkolongo (Synodontis spp) and Kasulu (Mormyrids). Nile Tilapia Nile perch. Mirror carp African catfish lung fish Kisinja...
Click to read more »Ampullae of Lorenzini
Jumat, 2026-03-27 05:38:58Kelvin. Knollenorgan – a non-homologous type of electroreceptor, found in mormyrid fishes Roth A, Tscharntke H (October 1976). "Ultrastructure of the ampullary...
Click to read more »Cornish jack
Rabu, 2025-10-01 09:05:02attain a maximum known length of 1.5 m and a weight of 15 kg. Like other mormyrids, Cornish jacks have an electric organ and generate weak pulses of electricity...
Click to read more »Jaan Patterson
Rabu, 2026-02-18 12:43:252015) Peculiar Mormyrid. A Surrealist Journal "Peculiar Mormyrid 1.0 Spring 2015" Peculiar Mormyrid. A Surrealist Journal "Peculiar Mormyrid Issue 3 2016"...
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Selasa, 2026-05-26 05:46:24electrotonic junctions. II. Spinal and medullary electromotor nuclei in mormyrid fish". J. Neurophysiol. 30 (2): 180–208. doi:10.1152/jn.1967.30.2.180....
Click to read more »Cryptomyrus
Selasa, 2026-03-24 05:44:08Cryptomyrus is a genus of mormyrid fish native to Gabon. There are currently two recognized species in this genus: Cryptomyrus ogoouensis J. P. Sullivan...
Click to read more »Reed cormorant
Rabu, 2026-05-06 00:13:30small slow-moving fish, and those with long and tapering shapes, such as mormyrids, catfishes, and cichlids. It will less frequently eat soles (which can...
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Rabu, 2026-05-20 08:05:40Christian (2002). "Reproductive strategies and developmental aspects in mormyrid and gymnotiform fishes". Journal of Physiology-Paris. 96 (5–6): 557–566...
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Rabu, 2026-02-11 15:25:06have sound-generating mechanisms involving the swim bladder include: Mormyrids Characids Batrachoidids Triglids Gadids Frogs possess vocal sacs which...
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Sabtu, 2026-01-03 02:46:50upside-down catfish. More than 200 fish species have been documented. Mormyrids are the most common, with over 40 species, and have the highest diversification...
Click to read more »Medullary command nucleus
Selasa, 2021-01-05 16:11:29Electromotor Command Nucleus during Spontaneous Electric Signal Production in the Mormyrid Brienomyrus brachyistius". The Journal of Neuroscience. Retrieved 2007-11-17...
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Sabtu, 2025-10-04 00:40:39and encase most of the body like a sheath. The elephantnose fish is a mormyrid with the electric organ in its tail. Location of electric organ in a Gymnotus...
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Selasa, 2026-05-19 10:26:14mammal. However, some fish have relatively large brains, most notably mormyrids and sharks, which have brains about as massive relative to body weight...
Click to read more »Marcusenius thomasi
Kamis, 2025-10-02 18:54:56Sherbo mormyrid (Marcusenius thomasi) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae. It is found in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and Sierre...
Click to read more »Gnathonemus
Minggu, 2026-05-17 23:17:34recognized species in this genus: Gnathonemus barbatus Poll 1967 (Angolan mormyrid) Gnathonemus echidnorhynchus Pellegrin 1924 (Blunt-jawed elephantnose)...
Click to read more »Mzuzu
Jumat, 2026-03-06 12:21:09mayagho), rice, locally called mpunga, and batala fish (a bottle-nosed mormyrid, Mormyrus longirostris). Batala comes from the nearby Lake Malawi waters...
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Rabu, 2026-04-08 16:44:121905) (Quanza mormyrid) Marcusenius annamariae (Parenzan, 1939) (Annamaria mormyrid) Marcusenius bentleyi (Boulenger, 1897) (Bentley's mormyrid) Marcusenius...
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Selasa, 2026-03-24 21:19:001898 (Matadi mormyrid) Myomyrus macrops Boulenger, 1914 (Ja River mormyrid) Myomyrus pharao (Poll & Taverne, 1967) (Kinsuka mormyrid) Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer...
Click to read more »Boulengeromyrus
Kamis, 2026-05-21 13:56:19Museum (Natural History), who described 70 currently valid species of mormyrids; –myrus, conventional termination for generic names of elephantfishes...
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Jumat, 2026-05-15 05:18:56vs Ehrenburg: A Détournement on the Boulevard Montparnasse". Peculiar Mormyrid. peculiarmormyrid.com. Retrieved 24 March 2024. Crevel, René. Le Clavecin...
Click to read more »Mormyrinae
Selasa, 2026-03-24 06:18:08Biology. 199 (3): 603–607. Bell CC, Szabo T (1986). Electroreception in Mormyrid fish. Central Anatomy. pp. 375–421. In: Bullock TH, Heiligenberg W, (eds...
Click to read more »List of sequenced animal genomes
Senin, 2026-05-11 14:04:50Heterotis niloticus, African arowana (2020) Paramormyrops kingsleyae, mormyrid electric fish (2017) Scleropages formosus, Asian arowana (2016) Order Perciformes...
Click to read more »Hippopotamyrus
Selasa, 2026-03-24 05:46:36(Lokundi mormyrid) Hippopotamyrus paugyi Lévêque & Bigorne 1985 (Kolente stonebasher) Hippopotamyrus pictus (Marcusen 1864) (Marcusen's mormyrid) Froese...
Click to read more »George Albert Boulenger
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 17:30:53Eigenmann, 1903 The cichlid genus Boulengerochromis Pellegrin, 1904 The mormyrid genus Boulengeromyrus Taverne & Géry, 1968 The standard author abbreviation...
Click to read more »ZNF821
Kamis, 2025-10-30 23:27:46Polypteriformes 433.00 471 49.58 Paramormyrops kingsleyae Old Calabar mormyrid Osteoglossiformes 433.00 443 53.63 Carcharodon carcharias Great white shark...
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Selasa, 2026-03-24 21:20:571924 (Kidada mormyrid) Stomatorhinus corneti Boulenger, 1899 (Stanley Pool mormyrid) Stomatorhinus fuliginosus Poll, 1941 (Mosongolia mormyrid) Stomatorhinus...
Click to read more »Ilya Ehrenburg
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 05:06:56vs Ehrenburg: A Détournement on the Boulevard Montparnasse". Peculiar Mormyrid. peculiarmormyrid.com. Retrieved 24 March 2024. Thomas, Hugh (2012). The...
Click to read more »Brienomyrus
Selasa, 2026-03-24 05:42:47Brienomyrus brachyistius (T. N. Gill 1862) (baby whale fish, baby whale mormyrid) Brienomyrus longianalis (Boulenger 1901) Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel...
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Kamis, 2025-10-02 00:13:41Mormyrid...
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Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:44:13Although usually smaller than the cerebrum, in some animals such as the mormyrid fishes it may be as large as or even larger. In humans, the cerebellum...
Click to read more »Franz Stuhlmann
Selasa, 2026-05-05 09:46:19stuhlmannii is named in his honor by Georg Johann Pfeffer. The Kingani mormyrid, Petrocephalus stuhlmanni Boulenger, 1909, is a species of electric fish...
Click to read more »Marcusenius macrolepidotus
Senin, 2026-03-30 13:54:58September 2006). "Ontogenetic development of electric-organ discharges in a mormyrid fish, the bulldog Marcusenius macrolepidotus (South African form)". Journal...
Click to read more »Parapatric speciation
Minggu, 2026-05-24 06:33:31Bernd Kramer and colleagues found evidence of parapatric speciation in Mormyrid fish (Pollimyrus castelnaui); whereas Rocha and Bowen contend that parapatric...
Click to read more »Marcusenius furcidens
Kamis, 2025-10-02 20:28:47Ivory Coast mormyrid (Marcusenius furcidens) is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found in the Como, Bandama, Sassandra, Bia and Tano...
Click to read more »Heteromormyrus
Senin, 2026-05-18 00:15:29pauciradiatus (Steindachner, 1866) (Steindachner's Angolan mormyrid or Steindachner's mormyrid) Heteromormyrus szaboi (B. Kramer, van der Bank & Wink, 2004)...
Click to read more »Franz Steindachner
Kamis, 2026-04-30 19:29:52blenny from the Eastern Pacific Petrocephalus steindachneri Fowler, 1958, a Mormyrid from Tanzania Cynoscion steindachneri, a drum Hypoptopoma steindachneri...
Click to read more »Clarias ngamensis
Senin, 2026-03-30 20:48:01hunting together. In the Okavango Delta of Botswana, the two catfishes hunt mormyrid fishes together, building energy reserves in the months before spawning...
Click to read more »Blunt-jawed elephantnose
Selasa, 2026-02-10 04:11:01The blunt-jawed elephantnose or wormjawed mormyrid (Campylomormyrus tamandua) is a species of elephantfish. It is found in rivers in West and Middle Africa...
Click to read more »Ivindomyrus
Senin, 2026-05-18 00:15:33Ivindomyrus marchei (Sauvage 1879) (Ogooue mormyrid) Ivindomyrus opdenboschi Taverne & Géry, 1975 (Ivindo mormyrid) Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van...
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Minggu, 2025-10-05 05:18:09I'Afrique Centrale, because of his invaluable technical aid in the study of mormyrid systematics. Moelants, T. (2010). "Ivindomyrus opdenboschi". IUCN Red List...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus sullivani
Senin, 2025-11-17 06:46:39of Vertebrates in Ithaca, New York, US, because of his contributions to mormyrid systematics. Moelants, T. (2010). "Petrocephalus sullivani". IUCN Red List...
Click to read more »William John Ansorge
Jumat, 2026-03-27 05:26:29ansorgii (Boulenger 1906), Enteromius ansorgii (Boulenger 1904), The Agberi mormyrid, Petrocephalus ansorgii Boulenger, 1903, is a species of electric fish...
Click to read more »Cuthbert Christy
Jumat, 2026-03-27 05:26:39Congo, southern and western Uganda, and northwestern Tanzania. The Lindi mormyrid, Petrocephalus christyi, a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae...
Click to read more »Louise Schilthuis
Jumat, 2024-11-01 15:10:36the amphibians in 1889 and on the fishes on 1891. Boulenger named the mormyrid Marcusenius schilthuisiae after her. 1889 On small collection of Amphibia...
Click to read more »Paramormyrops
Selasa, 2026-03-24 05:51:52(Boulenger 1906) (Kribi mormyrid) Paramormyrops curvifrons (Taverne, Thys van den Audenaerde, Heymer & Géry, 1977) (Ivindo mormyrid) Paramormyrops gabonensis...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus ansorgii
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 06:18:55Petrocephalus ansorgii, the Agberi mormyrid, is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found in Africa: on the Upper and Lower Niger, the...
Click to read more »Henri Émile Sauvage
Minggu, 2025-09-21 16:23:32Hamain, 1923. See Category:Taxa named by Henri Émile Sauvage The Sauvage's mormyrid, Petrocephalus sauvagii, is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae...
Click to read more »RNF227
Minggu, 2025-08-03 02:02:46435 XP_007231481.2 161 28.0% 37.4% Paramormyrops kinsleyae Old Calabar Mormyrid Osteoglossiformes 435 XP_023674393.1 165 26.6% 32.3% Lepisosteus oculatus...
Click to read more »Anti-Hebbian learning
Rabu, 2025-05-28 21:37:14system which adheres to an anti-Hebbian learning rule. Research on the mormyrid electric fish has demonstrated that the electrosensory lateral-line lobe...
Click to read more »Rhadinorhynchidae
Senin, 2026-03-02 14:02:32Megistacantha Golvan, 1960 (Palaeacanthocephala: Rhadinorhynchidae) in two African mormyrid fishes (Actinopterygii: Mormyridae)". Systematic Parasitology. 93 (9):...
Click to read more »Campylomormyrus
Selasa, 2026-05-19 01:02:04elephantfish) Campylomormyrus elephas (Boulenger 1898) (elephant-trunk mormyrid) Campylomormyrus luapulaensis (L. R. David & Poll 1937) (Kabunda elephantfish)...
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Selasa, 2026-03-24 05:44:20psittacus (Boulenger, 1897) Cyphotamyrus weeksii ([Boulenger, 1902) (Weeks' mormyrid) Cyphomyrus wilverthi (Boulenger, 1898) Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds...
Click to read more »Petrocephalus wesselsi
Senin, 2025-11-17 00:32:09(2000). The southern churchill, Petrocephalus wesselsi, a new species of mormyrid from South Africa defined by electric organ discharges, genetics, and morphology...
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