Electroreception and electrogenesis are the closely related biological abilities to perceive electrical stimuli and to generate electric fields. Both...

J. S., and W. G. R. Crampton. 2005. Electroreception and electrogenesis. Pp. 431–472 in The Physiology of Fishes, 3rd Edition. D. H. Evans and J. B. Claiborne...

physically associated with and evolved from the mechanosensory lateral line organs of early vertebrates. Passive electroreception using ampullae is an ancestral...

accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G...

York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374207946. Albert, J. S.; Crampton, W. G. (2006). "Electroreception and Electrogenesis". In Lutz, P. L. (ed...

Albert, J.S., and W.G.R. Crampton. 2005. Electroreception and electrogenesis. pp. 431–472 in The Physiology of Fishes, 3rd Edition. D.H. Evans and J.B. Claiborne...

slits on each side, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the division Selachii and are the sister group...

S2CID 13359966. Albert, J. S.; Crampton, William G. R. (2006). "Electroreception and electrogenesis". In Evans, David H.; Claiborne, James B. (eds.). The Physiology...

Species. Modern study began with Hans Lissmann's 1951 study of electroreception and electrogenesis in Gymnarchus niloticus. Detailed descriptions of the powerful...

Albert, J.S., and W.G.R. Crampton. 2005. Electroreception and electrogenesis. pp. 431–472 in The Physiology of Fishes, 3rd Edition. D.H. Evans and J.B. Claiborne...

(using paired fins and tail), and jumping. Many of these methods of locomotion incorporate multiple combinations of pectoral-, pelvic-, and tail-fin movement...

A dorsal fin is a fin on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates. Dorsal fins have evolved independently several times through convergent evolution...

all of their lives in bodies of fresh water such as rivers, lakes, ponds and inland wetlands, where the salinity is less than 1.05%. These environments...

characteristics within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and ancestral structures within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed...

Juvenile fish Fish go through various life stages between fertilization and adulthood. The life of fish start as spawned eggs which hatch into immotile...

most often by wave-like lateral flexions of the fish's body and tail in the water, and in various specialised fish by motions of the fins. The major...

and surrounding environment lead to a generation of alternating sideways forces that act to move the animal forward. These forces generate thrust and...

portal Bichirs /ˈbɪʃɪərz/ and the reedfish comprise Polypteridae /pɒlɪpˈtɛrɪdiː/, a family of archaic ray-finned fishes and the only family in the order...

that allow fish to breathe underwater. Most fish exchange gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide using gills on both sides of the pharynx (throat). Gills possess...

the single living genus, Amia with two species, the bowfins (Amia calva and Amia ocellicauda), as well as the Ginglymodi, the sole living representatives...

Mouthbrooding, also known as oral incubation and buccal incubation, is the care given by some groups of animals to their offspring by holding them in...

Holmes; Hopkins, Carl D.; Popper, Arthur N.; Fay, Richard R. (2005). Electroreception. Springer. pp. 5–7. ISBN 978-0-387-23192-1. Faria, Vicente V.; McDavitt...

freshwater organisms are stenohaline, and will die in seawater, and similarly most marine organisms are stenohaline, and cannot live in fresh water. Osmoregulation...

sea anemones, starfish, snails, bristleworms and sea cucumbers—and benthivore or benthivorous, for fish and invertebrates that feed on material from the...

environments around the world. Fishkeepers often keep tropical fish in freshwater and saltwater aquariums. The term "tropical fish" is not a taxonomic group, but...

including fish and cephalopods. The organ can be simple, or as complex as the human eye, equipped with lenses, shutters, color filters, and reflectors; unlike...

from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates, and include the first and extinct fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Quaternary...

order Acipenseriformes. It is found primarily in the Caspian and Black Sea basins, and formerly in the Adriatic Sea. Based on maximum size, it is the...

fish" and the fish is one of the national symbols of the country. The Exocet missile is named after them, as variants are launched from underwater, and take...

internal gas-filled organ in bony fish that functions to modulate buoyancy, and thus allowing the fish to stay at desired water depth without having to maintain...