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Mormyromast, a type of electroreceptor found only in the skin of Mormyrid fishes These fish have two types of tuberous electroreceptor: [ note 2 ] the Knollenorgan [ 43 ] and the Mormyromast . [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Both organs are found in adult individuals, where they are lightly covered by epithelial cells and skin, while their sensitivity ranges ...
Mormyromast, a type of electroreceptor found only in mormyrid fishes Further information: Electroreception and electrogenesis Elephantfish possess electric organs that generate weak electric fields , and electroreceptors ( ampullae of Lorenzini , knollenorgans , and Mormyromasts) that detect small variations in these electric fields caused by ...
Bronze figurine of Oxyrhynchus fish, Late Period-Ptolemaic Egypt The Medjed was a sacred fish in Ancient Egypt. At the city of Per-Medjed, better known as Oxyrhynchus, whose name means "sharp-nosed" after the fish, archaeologists have found fishes depicted as bronze figurines, mural paintings, or wooden coffins in the shape of fishes with downturned snouts, with horned sun-disc crowns like ...
Mormyrus longirostris, commonly referred as the eastern bottle-nosed mormyrid, is a medium-sized ray-finned fish species belonging to the family Mormyridae. It was originally described by Wilhelm Peters in Monatsberichte der Akad. Wiss. Berlin , 1852.
Other names in English include elephantnose fish, long-nosed elephant fish, and Ubangi mormyrid, after the Ubangi River. The Latin name petersii is probably for the German naturalist Wilhelm Peters. The fish uses electrolocation to find prey, and has the largest brain-to-body oxygen use ratio of all known vertebrates (around 0.6). [2]
Mormyrops is a genus of weakly electric fish in the family Mormyridae from freshwater in Africa. They are characterized by an elongate head measuring twice as long as high, and no teeth on the palate or the tongue. [1]
Officials from the Sandusky County Health Department will collect mosquitos at 14 locations over the next two weeks after a blue jay that died last month was found to have West Nile virus.
The Cornish jack, Mormyrops anguilloides, is a species of weakly electric fish in the family Mormyridae, native to quiet waters in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.The largest species in its family, the Cornish jack is a nocturnal group hunter of smaller fishes, using electricity to locate its prey and communicate with other members of its group.