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The shape and structure of these leads to the popular name "elephant-nosed fish" for those species with particularly prominent mouth extensions. The extensions to the mouthparts usually consist of a fleshy elongation attached to the lower jaw. They are flexible, and equipped with touch, and possibly taste, sensors.
Peters's elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is an African freshwater elephantfish in the genus Gnathonemus. 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 Cape elephantfish eats sea urchins, bivalves, crustaceans, gastropods, worms, and bony fish. Its predators include seals and sharks. It is oviparous, laying two egg cases at a time. The egg case is large (about 25 cm) and spindle-shaped, with a ragged frill all around it.
Elephant fish may refer to: Fish. Callorhinchidae, a family of marine fish also known as elephant sharks or plough-nose chimaeras; Mormyridae, a family of African freshwater fish that sometimes are kept in aquariums; Other. Gajamina, an elephant-fish mythical figure used in funeral ceremonies in Bali, Indonesia
The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant, along with the African bush elephant. It is native to humid tropical forests in West Africa and the Congo Basin. It is the smallest of the three living elephant species, reaching a shoulder height of 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in). As with other African ...
A new study has uncovered a tiny fish species’s ability to produce a huge sound. Danionella cerebrum is 10 to 12 millimeters, or about 0.4 to about 0.5 inches, long and lives in shallow, murky ...
Alternative names include elephant shark, makorepe (in Māori), whitefish, plough-nose chimaera, or elephant fish. It is found off southern Australia , including Tasmania , and south of East Cape and Kaipara Harbour in New Zealand , at depths of 0–200 m (0–656 ft).
Emperors feed on fish, squid, and krill, and spend most of their time in the ocean diving and hunting for it. They can dive 1,850 feet below the surface and stay submerged for over 20 minutes at a ...