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The black ghost knifefish (Apteronotus albifrons) is a tropical fish belonging to the ghost knifefish family (Apteronotidae). They originate in freshwater habitats in South America where they range from Venezuela to the Paraguay – Paraná River , including the Amazon Basin . [ 2 ]
The ghost knifefishes are a family, Apteronotidae, of ray-finned fishes in the order Gymnotiformes. These fish are native to Panama and South America . [ 1 ] They inhabit a wide range of freshwater habitats, but more than half the species in the family are found deep in rivers (typically deeper than 5 m or 16 ft) where there is little or no light.
Despite the name, the electric eel is a type of knifefish. The Gymnotiformes / dʒ ɪ m ˈ n ɒ t ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are an order of teleost bony fishes commonly known as Neotropical knifefish or South American knifefish. They have long bodies and swim using undulations of their elongated anal fin.
Apteronotus is a genus of weakly electric knifefish in the family Apteronotidae, distinguished by the presence of a tiny tail fin.This genus is restricted to tropical and subtropical South America (Amazon, Orinoco, Río de la Plata and Magdalena basins, as well as rivers in western Colombia and the Guianas) and Panama where found in a wide range of freshwater habitats.
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Could this be the “Mekong Ghost,” they asked - an elusive fish that hadn’t been seen since 2005 and was feared extinct? When scientists heard reports that a large, mysterious fish had been ...
Family Apteronotidae (ghost knifefishes) The featherbacks, family Notopteridae. The aba, Gymnarchus niloticus; Four other unrelated fish species not in any of the above families: Grey knifefish, Bathystethus cultratus. Blue knifefish, Labracoglossa nitida. Collared knifefish or finscale razorfish, Cymolutes torquatus. Jack-knifefish, Equetus ...
Has Halloween come early? Monstrous deep sea angler fish have washed up on the shores of a park in California