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Mormyridae

Known as: Elephantfish, Mormyrids, Mormyrid 
Any species of freshwater African fish of the family Mormyridae, also known as elephantfishes.
National Institutes of Health

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CallorhinchidaeCallorhinchus milii

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Electric Fish

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Temporal-Pattern Recognition by Single Neurons in a Sensory Pathway Devoted to Social Communication Behavior
Sensory systems often encode stimulus information into the temporal pattern of action potential activity. However, little is… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
AFLPs RESOLVE PHYLOGENY AND REVEAL MITOCHONDRIAL INTROGRESSION WITHIN A SPECIES FLOCK OF AFRICAN ELECTRIC FISH (MORMYROIDEA: TELEOSTEI)
Abstract Estimating species phylogeny from a single gene tree can be especially problematic for studies of species flocks in… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Reversible Associative Depression and Nonassociative Potentiation at a Parallel Fiber Synapse
Review
1999
Review
1999
Design features for electric communication.
How do the communication discharges produced by electric fish evolve to accommodate the unique design features for the modality… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Plasticity of feedback inputs in the apteronotid electrosensory system.
Weakly electric fish generate an electric field surrounding their body by means of an electric organ typically located within the… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Visual and electrosensory circuits of the diencephalon in mormyrids: An evolutionary perspective
Mormyrids are one of two groups of teleost fishes known to have evolved electroreception, and the concomitant neuroanatomical… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Hormonal control of sexual differentiation: changes in electric organ discharge waveform.
Males and females of some mormyrid electric fishes generate electrical pulses that differ in waveform and duration. For one such… 
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Physiology and ultrastructure of electrotonic junctions. II. Spinal and medullary electromotor nuclei in mormyrid fish.
Review
1967
Review
1967
Comparative anatomy of olfactory centres and tracts.
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Sense organs of the lateral line system in some electric fish of the Gymnotidae, Mormyridae and Gymnarchidae
Morphological aspects of lateral line system of Gymnotidae, Mormyridae and Gymnarchidae were studied: “Ordinary” and specialized… 
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