Electric eel · Amazon knifefishes whose stacked electrocytes taught Humboldt, Volta arguments and a 2019 species split.
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The Linnaean type in the public mind.
Electrophorus electricus (original name, Guianas / Amazon) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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High-voltage species named for Volta.
Electrophorus voltai (2019 / ~860 V, Brazil) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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1800 horse-and-eel travel science.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859, Prussia / Americas) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Pile debates that used animal electricity as a foil.
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827, Italy) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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High-speed hunt and remote-twitch papers.
Kenneth Catania (Vanderbilt videos, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Lead author on the three-species paper.
C. David de Santana (2019 split, Brazil / US) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Basin labs that hold live gymnotiforms.
Amazon field stations (INPA and others, Brazil) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Animal electricity argument the eel later joined as exhibit.
Galvani-Volta debate (1790s, Italy) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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The 2019 split is settled in papers and still singular in toys and tanks. Voltage records now need a species name.
Humboldt horses are a story. Catania frames are a method. Both still circulate as the same eel.
Apex lamnid whose warm muscle, broad diet and 1975 cinema still outrun the tagging papers.
Overall 66 🐟Anadromous fishes that move ocean fat onto spawning gravels -- and into forests, treaties and hydropower fights.
Overall 63 🐟A warm-bodied tuna whose Tokyo auction prices and ICCAT quotas made a single fish into a geopolitical unit.
Overall 54 🐠Anemone-dwelling damselfish whose 2003 film fame became a capture-and-reef case study.
Overall 41 🐴Upright syngnathids whose male pregnancy and dried-medicine trade made a small fish a CITES case.
Overall 28 🎏Domesticated carp whose Niigata colour mutations became a global pond aesthetic -- not a wild goldfish substitute.
Overall 42 🐡Beak-toothed inflators whose tetrodotoxin made a Japanese cuisine and a genome project out of one family.
Overall 41