Electrophorus electricus is the best-known species of electric eel. It is a South American electric fish. Until the discovery of two additional species...

word electrophorus was coined by Volta from the Greek ήλεκτρον, elektron, and φορεύς, phoreus, meaning 'electricity bearer'. The electrophorus consists...

coloration: Electrophorus electricus (Linnaeus, 1766) This, the type species, has a U-shaped head, with a flattened skull and cleithrum. Electrophorus voltai...

previously classified within Electrophorus electricus when that species was considered the only one in the genus Electrophorus, but a 2019 analysis described...

Electrophorus varii, or Vari’s electric eel, is a species of electric eel found in South America. It was previously classified within Electrophorus electricus...

there are 43 species in two genera: Electrophorus (3 species) Gymnotus (40 species) Historically, Electrophorus was in a separate family Electrophoridae...

Royal School in Como. A year later, he improved and popularised the electrophorus, a device that produced static electricity. His promotion of it was...

for navigation, communication, and, in the case of the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), attack and defense. A few species are familiar to the aquarium...

also used for some other eel-shaped fish, such as electric eels (genus Electrophorus), swamp eels (order Synbranchiformes), and deep-sea spiny eels (family...

Eel in the River Plate Region (c. 1760) and other Early Accounts of Electrophorus electricus". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 17 (2): 160–174...

The electric eel, Electrophorus electricus...

In 1762 Swedish professor Johan Wilcke invented a device later named electrophorus that produced a static electric charge. By 1800 Alessandro Volta had...

One example is the electrophorus, a device consisting of a slab with electret properties and a separate metal plate. The electrophorus was originally invented...

such as the Wimshurst machine, the Van de Graaff generator and the electrophorus, use this principle. See also Stephen Gray in this context. Due to induction...

University of California Press. pp. 242–44. ISBN 978-0-520-23802-2. electrophorus volta. Bohr, Niels (1 January 1913). "On the Constitution of Atoms and...

similar to the low voltage electrolocative discharge of the electric eel, Electrophorus. This is hypothesized to be Batesian mimicry of the powerfully-protected...

oxygen breathers that require resurfacing in order to survive, such as Electrophorus electricus and Gymnotus carapo, the latter of which uses an "esophageal...

Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 242–44. ISBN 0-520-23802-8. electrophorus volta. "Photocopying processes". McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science...

triboelectric effect). This can be useful, as in a Van de Graaff generator or electrophorus, or it can be potentially destructive as in the case of electrostatic...

of the acetylcholine receptor by Noda and colleagues in 1982, while Electrophorus electrocytes served in the first sequencing of the voltage-gated sodium...

and negative electric "fluids". In 1777, Lichtenberg built a large electrophorus to generate high voltage static electricity through induction. After...

structure of the cholinergic receptor protein extracted by detergents from Electrophorus electricus electric tissue". FEBS Letters. 38 (1): 11–5. doi:10...

An electric eel is a freshwater fish of the genus Electrophorus, able to generate powerful electric shocks. The term may also refer to: Electric Eel (roller...

machine appears to have grown out of the invention of Volta's electrophorus. The electrophorus is a single-plate capacitor used to produce imbalances of electric...

the loaches Gymnotidae, the knifefishes, including the electric eel Electrophorus electricus Limbless vertebrate Adriaens, Dominique; Devaere, Stijn;...

used by Alessandro Volta in 1780 to refer to a device, similar to his electrophorus, he developed to measure electricity, and translated in 1782 as condenser...

invented an electrostatic generator that was a first version of the electrophorus, a device named and popularized in 1775 by Alessandro Volta. In 1772...

(12 ft) in length and 200 kg (440 lb) in weight. The electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) and more than 100 species of electric fishes (Gymnotiformes)...

Glass knifefish Eigenmannia virescens 44 cm (17.5 in) Electric eel Electrophorus electricus 200 cm (78.5 in) Northern pike Esox lucius 150 cm (59 in)...

Emperor in 2022. The ride is loosely themed around the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). An educational area and informational exhibit on electric...