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Electric ray, Electrolux addisoni
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Electric ray, Electrolux addisoni
New fish named after vacuum cleaner | Practical Fishkeeping magazine
New fish named after vacuum cleaner
Picture kindly supplied by Dr Phil Heemstra
South African scientists have discovered a new genus and species of an attractively patterned electric ray off the east coast of South Africa and they have named it after a vacuum cleaner company.
The new electric ray, named Electrolux addisoni, is described in the latest issue of the journal Smithiana Bulletin by Leonard Compagno and Phillip Heemstra.
Electrolux addisoni is easily distinguished from other electric rays of the family Narkidae by its striking colour pattern consisting of a dark brown dorsal surface of the disc with numerous small pale yellow spots and a series of concentric black stripes.
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