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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The subfamily Mormyrinae contains all but one of the genera of the African freshwater fish family Mormyridae in the order Osteoglossiformes.They are often called elephantfish due to a long protrusion below their mouths used to detect buried invertebrates that is suggestive of a tusk or trunk (some such as Marcusenius senegalensis gracilis are sometimes called trunkfish though this term is ...
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.
The Bebe morymid inhabits both still and flowing bodies of water. The species' diet consists mainly of mollusks. It possesses electroreceptors over its head and on the ventral and dorsal regions of the body, but they are absent from the side and the caudal peduncle where the electric organ is located.
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]
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.