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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 blunt-jawed elephantnose or wormjawed mormyrid (Campylomormyrus tamandua) is a species of elephantfish. [2] It is found in rivers in West and Middle Africa. [3] It is brown or black with a long elephant-like snout with the mouth located near the tip.
Isolating diseased fish can help prevent the spread of infection to healthy fish in the tank. This also allows the use of chemicals or drugs which may damage the nitrogen cycle, plants or chemical filtration of a properly-functioning tank. Other alternatives include short baths in a bucket that contains the treated water.
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 ...
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 ...
A baby elephant took a tentative dip in a swimming pool in Thailand on Thursday as part of a lengthy rehabilitation process to heal her injured foot. Thai baby elephant gets water-based treatment ...
What’s in the $600 Drunk Elephant Trunk 8.0? Encased in a fully functional carry-on bag, there are six sample-sized and 10 full-sized skincare products from the cult-favorite brand, including ...