Apteronotus
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Apteronotus is a genus
of weakly electric
knifefish
in the family
Apteronotidae, distinguished by the presence of a tiny caudal fin.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of weakly electric
Electric fish
An electric fish is a fish that can generate electric fields. It is said to be electrogenic; a fish that has the ability to detect electric fields is said to be electroreceptive. Most electrogenic fish are also electroreceptive. Electric fish species can be found both in the sea and in freshwater...
knifefish
Gymnotiformes
The Gymnotiformes are a group of teleost bony fishes commonly known as the Neotropical or South American knifefishes. They have long bodies and swim using undulations of their elongated anal fin...
in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Apteronotidae, distinguished by the presence of a tiny caudal fin.
Species
- Black ghost knifefishBlack ghost knifefishThe black ghost knifefish, Apteronotus albifrons, is a tropical fish belonging to the ghost knifefish family . They originate in South America in the Amazon Basin in Peru and from Venezuela through Paraguay in the Paraná River. They are becoming popular in aquaria...
, Apteronotus albifrons (LinnaeusCarolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
, 1766). - Apteronotus apurensis Fernández-Yépez, 1968.
- Apteronotus bonapartii (Castelnau, 1855).
- Apteronotus brasiliensis (Reinhardt, 1852).
- Apteronotus camposdapazi de Santana & Lehmann, 2006.
- Apteronotus caudimaculosus Santana, 2003.
- Apteronotus cuchillejo (Schultz, 1949).
- Apteronotus cuchillo Schultz, 1949.
- Apteronotus ellisi (Alonso de Arámburu, 1957).
- Apteronotus eschmeyeri Santana, Maldonado-Ocampo, Severi & Mendes, 2004.
- Apteronotus galvisiApteronotus galvisiApteronotus galvisi is a species of ghost knifefish that was first described in a 2007 scientific paper. It is endemic to Colombia. It has a mostly brown body, with some areas of yellow or white....
de Santana et al., 2007. - Apteronotus jurubidae (Fowler, 1944).
- Brown ghost knifefishBrown ghost knifefishThe brown ghost knifefish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus, is a species of weakly electric knifefish in the family Apteronotidae....
, Apteronotus leptorhynchus (Ellis, 1912). - Apteronotus macrolepis (SteindachnerFranz SteindachnerFranz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
, 1881). - Apteronotus macrostomus (Günther, 1870).
- Apteronotus magdalenensis (Miles, 1945).
- Apteronotus mariae (EigenmannCarl H. EigenmannCarl H. Eigenmann was an ichthyologist who, along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann, described many of the fishes of North America and South America for the first time....
& Fisher, 1914). - Apteronotus milesi de Santana & Maldonado-Ocampo, 2005.
- Apteronotus rostratus (Meek & Hildebrand, 1913).
- Apteronotus spurrellii (Regan, 1914).