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    The African knifefish, Gymnarchus niloticus – also called the aba aba – is an electric fish, living at the bottoms of rivers and lakes. It is the only...
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    predators. Glass knifefish that are using similar frequencies move their frequencies up or down in a jamming avoidance response; African knifefish have convergently...
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    the Mormyridae (elephantfishes), and by Gymnarchus niloticus, the African knifefish. An electric fish generates an electric field using an electric organ...
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    The African brown knifefish (Xenomystus nigri) is the only species in the genus Xenomystus of the family Notopteridae. This fish is found in the Chad...
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    Mormyridae, or with waves, as in the Torpediniformes and Gymnarchus, the African knifefish. Many electric fishes also use EODs for communication, while strongly...
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    (Distichodontidae, Hepsetidae, Citharinidae, Alestiidae), Osteoglossiformes (African knifefish, Gymnarchidae, Mormyridae, Pantodontidae), Siluriformes (Amphiliidae...
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    The Gymnarchidae (the only species being Gymnarchus niloticus, the African knifefish) and the Mormyridae are weakly electric fish able to sense their prey...
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    freshwater or brackish environments in Africa and West South East and Southeast Asia. With the denotation of "knifefish", the notopterids should not be confused...
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    the body. Lungfish, bichirs, ropefish, bowfins, snakefish, and the African knifefish have evolved to reduce such mixing, and to reduce oxygen loss from...
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    order of teleost bony fishes commonly known as Neotropical knifefish or South American knifefish. They have long bodies and swim using undulations of their...
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  • Kenneth E. Machin identifying the electric field generated by the African knifefish (Gymnarchus), and the uses which the fish makes of it. He was Reader...
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  • Bluegill Blue gourami Blue shark Blue triggerfish Blue whiting Bluntnose knifefish Bluntnose minnow Boafish Boarfish Bobtail snipe eel Bocaccio Boga Bombay...
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    reticulated knifefish (Papyrocranus afer) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Notopteridae, the featherbacks, found in tropical West Africa. It reaches...
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    discovered a JAR in the distantly-related Gymnarchus niloticus, the African knifefish, showing that the behavior had convergently evolved in two separate...
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    Phylogenetic utility of the first two introns of the S7 ribosomal protein gene in African electric fishes (Mormyroidea: Teleostei) and congruence with other molecular...
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    Lake Turkana (category African Great Lakes)
    mango tilapia, bichirs, the elephantfish Mormyrus kannume, African arowana, African knifefish, Distichodus niloticus, the Nile perch and numerous others...
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    brown ghost knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus) is a species of weakly electric knifefish in the family Apteronotidae. The brown ghost knifefish is the only...
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    Electric eel (category Knifefish of Brazil)
    the true eels (Anguilliformes) but are members of the electroreceptive knifefish order, Gymnotiformes. This order is more closely related to catfish. In...
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    swim-bladder.[citation needed] Knifefish: (Gymnotiformes) some species of Gymnotiformes, otherwise known as the knifefish, are obligate oxygen breathers...
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  • — China Clown knifefish Chitala ornata Laguna de Bay Indochina Regarded as an ornamental fish in the Philippines, the clown knifefish is believed to...
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    aggression. Some compatible species often partnered with this fish are clown knifefish, pacu, oscars, jaguar cichlids, green terrors, gar, tinfoil barb, Siamese...
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    Yellow-tail blue damselfish Tropical Freshwater Aquarium Black ghost knifefish Clown knifefish Clown loach Common plecostomus Cigar shark Flagtail Jaguar cichlid...
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  • afer, brubru Orycteropus afer, aardvark Papyrocranus afer , reticulate knifefish Parus afer, southern grey tit, also classified as Melaniparus afer Ptilostomus...
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    the Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance and Analysis system, and the Knifefish, a Surface mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle. Canceled module...
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    size is 22.7 kg (50 lb) and 1.84 m (6.0 ft) long. Knifefish (Gymnotiformes) The largest knifefish is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) The...
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    family Notopteridae found in Middle and West Africa. Papyrocranus afer (Günther, 1868) (reticulated knifefish) Papyrocranus congoensis (Nichols & La Monte...
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    propagating a wave along the long fins with a motionless body, as in the knifefish or featherbacks. In addition, some fish can variously "walk" (i.e., crawl...
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    features a five-foot-long electric eel. Bluntnose knifefish, elephantnose knifefish and black ghost knifefish are also featured. The zoo's reptile house opened...
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    Gonorynchiformes (milkfish and beaked salmons) and Gymnotiformes (South American knifefish), a superorder characterized by the Weberian apparatus. Some place Gymnotiformes...
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    Notes African jewelfish Hemichromis bimaculatus Y Y African pompano Alectis ciliaris Y Y Also known as the pennant-fish and threadfin trevally. African tigerfish...
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