or symbols. Fish behavior in mazes reveals that they possess spatial memory and visual discrimination. Vision is an important sensory system for most species...

The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information. A sensory system consists of sensory neurons...

echolocation of bats and electrosensory detection of electric fish. Contact active sensory systems use physical contact between stimuli and organism. Insect...

balance in eumetazoans. The mechanoreceptors are very crucial to the snail's sensory. Hancock's organ Sensory ecology Sensory systems in fish This article...

jawless fish, the lamprey has well-developed eyes, while the hagfish has only primitive eyespots. Hearing too is an important sensory system in fish. Fish sense...

is a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water. The sensory ability...

and Peripheral nervous systems that relay sensory information to and from the brain and body), the different types of sensory receptor cells (such as...

leads to a delayed response to the attack. There is a mechano-sensory system in fishes to identify the different flow generated by different motion surrounding...

mechanisms of sensory systems to the behavioral patterns employed in the acquisition of sensory information to the role of sensory ecology in larger evolutionary...

albifrons" in FishBase. May 2005 version. Nelson M. E. & MacIver M. A. (1999). "Prey capture in the weakly electric fish Apteronotus albifrons: sensory acquisition...

Sensory maps are areas of the brain which respond to sensory stimulation, and are spatially organized according to some feature of the sensory stimulation...

In perceptual psychology, a sensory cue is a statistic or signal that can be extracted from the sensory input by a perceiver, that indicates the state...

study of how the component parts of fish function together in the living fish. In practice, fish anatomy and fish physiology complement each other, the...

Active sensory systems Feature detection (nervous system) Magnetoreception von der Emde, G. (15 May 1999). "Active electrolocation of objects in weakly...

an efference copy. Sensory information coming from sensory receptors in the peripheral nervous system to the central nervous system is called afference...

Fish reproductive organs include testes and ovaries. In most species, gonads are paired organs of similar size, which can be partially or totally fused...

In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to...

Poisonous fish are fish that are poisonous to eat. They contain toxins which are not destroyed by the digestive systems of animals that eat the fish. Venomous...

the axons to peripheral organs or, in the case of sensory nerves, from the periphery back to the central nervous system. Each axon, within the nerve, is...

Fish development Operculum papillare Photophore Sensory systems in fish Stylophthalmine trait Vision in fish Visual perception Shand, J.; K. B Døving; S....

Oily fish are fish species with oil (fats) in soft tissues and in the coelomic cavity around the gut. Their fillets may contain up to 30% oil, although...

attachment site for sensory receptors which detect pain, sensation, pressure, and temperature. The skin is one of the largest organs of the body. In humans, it...

Sacabambaspis is an extinct genus of jawless fish that lived in the Ordovician period. Sacabambaspis lived in shallow waters on the continental margins of...

Fish gills are organs that allow fish to breathe underwater. Most fish exchange gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide using gills that are protected under...

marine ray-finned fish in the order Beloniformes, known colloquially as flying fish or flying cod. About 64 species are grouped in seven genera. While...

Fish physiology is the scientific study of how the component parts of fish function together in the living fish. It can be contrasted with fish anatomy...

Deep-sea fish are fish that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish...

Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups...

fluid of fish, mollusks, and certain other water-dwelling animals which reproduce by spraying this fluid, which contains the sperm, onto roe (fish eggs)...

jamming avoidance responses in Gymnotid and Gymnarchid electric fish: a case of convergent evolution of behavior and its sensory basis". Journal of Comparative...