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    Electroreception and electrogenesis are the closely related biological abilities to perceive electrical stimuli and to generate electric fields. Both...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    physically associated with and evolved from the mechanosensory lateral line organs of early vertebrates. Passive electroreception using ampullae is an ancestral...
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  • 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...
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    Fish (section Electrogenesis)
    York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374207946. Albert, J. S.; Crampton, W. G. (2006). "Electroreception and Electrogenesis". In Lutz, P. L. (ed...
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    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...
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    Species. Modern study began with Hans Lissmann's 1951 study of electroreception and electrogenesis in Gymnarchus niloticus. Detailed descriptions of the powerful...
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    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...
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    S2CID 13359966. Albert, J. S.; Crampton, William G. R. (2006). "Electroreception and electrogenesis". In Evans, David H.; Claiborne, James B. (eds.). The Physiology...
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    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...
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    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...
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    sea anemones, starfish, snails, bristleworms and sea cucumbers—and benthivore or benthivorous, for fish and invertebrates that feed on material from the...
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    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...
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    Milt is the seminal fluid of fish, mollusks, and certain other water-dwelling animals. They reproduce by spraying this fluid which contains the sperm...
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    a sense other than vision. This opened up research into electroreception and electrogenesis in fish. He demonstrated by experiment that it could locate...
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    Juvenile fish Fish go through various life stages between fertilization and adulthood. The life of fish start as spawned eggs which hatch into immotile...
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    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...
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    Batomorphi (redirect from Rays and skates)
    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...
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    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...
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    (using paired fins and tail), and jumping. Many of these methods of locomotion incorporate multiple combinations of pectoral-, pelvic-, and tail-fin movement...
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    Daniel (eds.). "Spinachia spinachia". FishBase. November 2013 version. "Electroreception | Sensory Perception & Adaptation | Britannica". www.britannica.com...
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    characteristics within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and ancestral structures within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed...
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    portal Bichirs /ˈbɪʃɪərz/ and the reedfish comprise Polypteridae /pɒlɪpˈtɛrɪdiː/, a family of archaic ray-finned fishes and the only family in the order...
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    Shoaling and schooling In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction...
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    adult fish live in the sea and migrate into fresh water to spawn; and catadromous, in which adult fish live in fresh water and migrate into salt water to...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates, and include the first and extinct fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Quaternary...
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    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...
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