4. History:
• Desribed by Carl Linnaeous in 1766.
• He used the name Gymnotus electricus
• and placing it in the same genus as gymnous carapo.
• In 1864 it was moved to its own genus.
• Electrophorus by Theodore Gill.
5. Habitat:
– Electric eel lives in fresh water of Amazone
and Orinoco river basins in South America.
in floodplains,swamps,creeks and small rivers.
6. Anatomy:
• Having elongated ,cylindrical body.
• Their coloration is dark grey brown on the back and
yellow or orange on the top.
• The mouth is square and position at the end of the snout.
• They produce low voltage shock when hunting to stun
their prey .
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8. Physical properties:
• Electric eel can grow to be 2m long.
• Having thick skin covered in little scale.
• Use electricity for survive.
9. Characteristics:
• Electric eel born in eggs they have 1700 babies.
• It is poweful because of electric shock.
• it produce more electricity than other animals.
• Electricity producing cells called electrocytes.
10. Electroreception:
• It is the adaptation of Electric eel.
• use for hunting,orientation during migration and for social
communication.
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12. Structural adaptation of electric eel:
Electric eel have sensors located along the side of their
long cylindrical body.
Electrolocation is a weak electric signal, the fish emit for
navigating,searching for prey and communication.
Having poor eyesight.
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14. Feeding:
• Feed on invertebrates.
• Adult fish feed on small mammals and fish.
• Juviniles eat on small invertebrates such as shrimp and
crabs.
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16. Reproduction:
• Having unusual breeding behaviour.
• In dry season male eel makes a nest from his sliva in
which female lays her egg.
• Male is larger than female.
17. Refrences:
• Catania k,the shocking predatory strike of the Electric
eel”Science the Vol,346,No 6214,(5 December 2014)pp
1231-1234.
• Katania,K C 'Leeping Eel electrify threats Supporting
Humboldts account of a Battle with Horses”Proceeding of
national academy of Sciences Vol,113(21 June 2016)
• Turkel W.J Spark from the deep: How shocking
experiments with strongly Electric eel fish powered
Scientific Discovery,John Hopkins University Press
Baltimore, 2013.
