Naked-back knifefish (redirect from Gymnotidae)
The naked-back knifefishes are a family (Gymnotidae) of knifefishes found only in fresh waters of Central America and South America. All have organs adapted...
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Electrophorus, of neotropical freshwater fish from South America in the family Gymnotidae. They are known for their ability to stun their prey by generating electricity...
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superfamilies as below. Order Gymnotiformes Suborder Gymnotoidei Family Gymnotidae (banded knifefishes and electric eels) Suborder Sternopygoidei Superfamily...
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electric knifefishes, order Gymnotiformes, containing five families: Family Gymnotidae (banded knifefishes and the electric eel) Family Rhamphichthyidae (sand...
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Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gymnotiformes Family: Gymnotidae Genus: Electrophorus Species: E. electricus Binomial name Electrophorus...
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Banded knifefish (category Gymnotidae)
"Revision of Banded Knifefishes of the Gymnotus carapo and G. tigre clades (Gymnotidae Gymnotiformes) from the Southern Neotropics". Zootaxa. 4379 (1): 47–73...
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Gymnotus (category Gymnotidae)
Gymnotus is a genus of Neotropical freshwater fish in the family Gymnotidae found widely in South America, Central America and southern Mexico (36th parallel...
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Gonorynchidae Gonostomatidae Goodeidae Grammatidae Grammicolepididae Gymnarchidae Gymnotidae Gymnuridae Gyrinocheilidae Haemulidae Halosauridae Harpagiferidae Helogeneidae...
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On 19 August 2018, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 4584 endangered species, subspecies, stocks and subpopulations. Diporochaeta pounamu...
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have convergently evolved in the African Mormyridae and South American Gymnotidae groups of electric fish. The two groups are distantly related, as they...
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quasi-sinusoidal discharge from the electric organ (termed "wave-type"), as in the Gymnotidae. Many of these fish, such as Gymnarchus and Apteronotus, keep their body...
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Electrophorus varii (category Gymnotidae)
Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gymnotiformes Family: Gymnotidae Genus: Electrophorus Species: E. varii Binomial name Electrophorus varii...
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British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi...
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cisternarum and Tarumania walkerae). The families Malapteruridae and Gymnotidae have the ability to produce strong electric charges; they are considered...
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"Sense organs of the lateral line system in some electric fish of the Gymnotidae, Gymnarchidae, and Mormyridae". Journal of Morphology. 117 (2): 229–250...
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British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi...
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Electrophorus voltai (category Gymnotidae)
Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gymnotiformes Family: Gymnotidae Genus: Electrophorus Species: E. voltai Binomial name Electrophorus voltai...
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airbreathing catfishes Dipnoi, the lungfishes Cobitidae, the loaches Gymnotidae, the knifefishes, including the electric eel Electrophorus electricus...
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British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi...
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British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi...
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British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi...
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British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi...
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Gymnotus choco (category Gymnotidae)
Molecular phylogenetics of the neotropical electric knifefish genus Gymnotus (Gymnotidae, Teleostei): biogeography and signal evolution of the trans-Andean species...
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Gymnotus tiquie (category Gymnotidae)
length around 24 cm (9.4 in). "A New Species of Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) from Rio Tiquié in Northern Brazil". Copeia. American Society of Ichthyologists...
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(Neotropical lung fish) Mormyridae or African electric fishes, not related to Gymnotidae (Neotropical electric fishes) Archaic bichirs Gymnorchidae Isopondyli...
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phylogenomic studies report the following interfamily relationships: Gymnotidae ((Hypopomidae, Rhamphichthyidae) (Sternopygidae, Apteronotidae)). See...
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British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi...
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British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi...
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In August 2018, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 6086 Vulnerable species, subspecies and varieties, stocks and sub-populations in the...
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Discharges in the Non-Reproductive Social Behaviour of Gymnotus carapo (Gymnotidae, Pisces)". Animal Behaviour Monographs. 3 (1): 1–77. doi:10.1016/S0066-1856(70)80001-2...
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