MORMYROIDEIMORMYROIDEI
| Upper Volta 1966 | Zimbabwe 1989 | Zaire 1978 |
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| Nile Pike Mormyrops curviceps (Mormyridae) |
Eastern Bottlenose Mormyrid Mormyrus longirostris (Mormyridae) |
Elephant-Fish Marcusenius isidori (Mormyridae) |
Mormyridae is there about 190 kinds drop and are distributed over the African tropical level. Most of these friends are full length 10-20 cm, but the greatest kind reaches 1.5 m. A type with a long rostrum called Elphant nose is famous,; but, as for the form of the rostrum part, is various. It is a generation organ of the peduncle part and is feeble, but it generates electricity and receive this electric current in a receptor of the head and can grasp a mise en scene from the state of the change of the electric field.
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