In biology, the electric organ is an organ that an electric fish uses to create an electric field. Electric organs are derived from modified muscle or...
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species, and both cartilaginous and bony fishes. Electric fish produce their electrical fields from an electric organ. This is made up of electrocytes, modified...
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The electric eels are a genus, Electrophorus, of neotropical freshwater fish from South America in the family Gymnotidae. They are known for their ability...
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Electroreception and electrogenesis (redirect from Ampullary organ)
niloticus, the African knifefish. An electric fish generates an electric field using an electric organ, modified from muscles in its tail. The field is...
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The electric rays are a group of rays, flattened cartilaginous fish with enlarged pectoral fins, composing the order Torpediniformes /tɔːrˈpɛdɪnɪfɔːrmiːz/...
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shock of up to 350 volts from its electric organ. Electric catfish are found in tropical Africa and the Nile River. Electric catfish are usually nocturnal...
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Black ghost knifefish (redirect from Black ghost knife fish)
Black ghost knifefish are nocturnal. They are a weakly electric fish which use an electric organ and receptors distributed over the length of their body...
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fish markets with the electric organ removed. Stargazers are ambush predators which camouflage themselves; some can deliver both venom and electric shocks...
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organs are the electric ray and the skates. Unlike many other electrogenic fishes, skates are unique in having paired electric organs which run longitudinally...
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Fish reproductive organs include testes and ovaries. In most species, gonads are paired organs of similar size, which can be partially or totally fused...
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moving prey and worms in the substrate by generating brief electric pulses with the electric organ in its tail. The electroreceptors around its body are sensitive...
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Gymnotiformes (redirect from Neotropical electric fish)
These fish possess electric organs that allow them to produce electric fields, which are usually weak. In most gymnotiforms, the electric organs are derived...
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recent fish species, though, these organs evolved into the swim bladders, which help control buoyancy. Having no lung-like organs, modern amphibious fish and...
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complement each other, the former dealing with the structure of a fish, its organs or component parts and how they are put together, such as might be...
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Strongly electric fish like the electric eel can in addition use their electric organs to generate shocks powerful enough to stun their prey. Most fish are...
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Electrophorus electricus (category Strongly electric fish)
Electrophorus electricus is the best-known species of electric eel. It is a South American electric fish. Until the discovery of two additional species in...
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Knollenorgan (category Weakly electric fish)
A Knollenorgan is an electroreceptor in the skin of weakly electric fish of the family Mormyridae (Elephantfish) from Africa. The structure was first...
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Ampullae of Lorenzini (category Sensory organs in animals)
electroreceptors, sense organs able to detect electric fields. They form a network of mucus-filled pores in the skin of cartilaginous fish (sharks, rays, and...
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Electric Music for the Mind and Body is Country Joe and the Fish's debut album. Released in May 1967 on the Vanguard label, it was one of the first psychedelic...
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equipping themselves with electric instruments and delving more into psychedelia. As a result, Cohen was moved over to the organ. Cohen's experience with...
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Swim bladder (redirect from Fish maw)
swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw, or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ in bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) that functions to modulate...
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electrodes to measure the fish's electric organ discharge, and used rubber gloves ("Kautschuck-Handschuhen") to enable him to catch the fish without being shocked...
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Otolith (redirect from Otolith organ)
all vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds). In vertebrates, the saccule and utricle together make the otolith organs. Both statoconia...
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feeds almost exclusively on small bony fishes, which it ambushes from the bottom and subdues with strong electric bursts. It defends itself by turning towards...
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Fish gills are organs that allow fish to breathe underwater. Most fish exchange gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide using gills that are protected under...
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Lateral line (redirect from Lateris organ)
The lateral line, also called the lateral line organ (LLO), is a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure...
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Most fish possess highly developed sense organs. Nearly all daylight fish have colour vision that is at least as good as a human's (see vision in fish)....
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Chondrichthyes (redirect from Cartilaginous fish)
cartilaginous fishes. The subclass Holocephali, which is a very specialized group, lacks both the Leydig's and epigonal organs. Apart from electric rays, which...
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Mormyridae (category Fish of Africa)
The electric discharge is produced from an electric organ that evolved from muscle, as can also be seen in gymnotiform electric fish, electric rays,...
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Atlantic stargazer (category Fish of West Asia)
The Atlantic stargazer produces EODs with the electric organ, derived from sonic muscles. In other fishes, sonic muscles are used to produce sound by agitating...
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