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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

cases include some sharks, skates and chimaeras. Egg cases typically contain one embryo, except for big skate and mottled skate egg cases, which contain...

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...

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

fish of the family Tripterygiidae. Found in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the family contains about 150 species...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

(Schindleria brevipinguis) where females reach it at 7 mm (0.28 in) and males at 6.5 mm (0.26 in), and Photocorynus spiniceps where males can reach it at 6.2 mm...

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...

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...