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electric eel (Electrophorus electricus)
Subject: electric eel (Electrophorus electricus)
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FMIB 50440 Gymnotus Electrieus, or Electrical Eel.jpeg
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electric eel (Electrophorus electricus)


Author Charles Bevalet  
Description
English: Gymnotus Electrieus, or Electrical Eel
Subject: Electric eel
Tag: Fish
Date 1868
Source/Photographer
English: Louis Fibuier (1868) Ocean World : Being a Descriptive History of the Sea and its Living Inhabitants, New York: D. Appleton & Co.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_50440_Gymnotus_Electrieus,_or_Electrical_Eel.jpeg

The electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) is an electric fish, and the only species in its genus. Despite the name, it is not an eel, but rather a knifefish. Electric eels inhabit fresh waters of the Amazon and Orinoco River basins in South America, in floodplains, swamps, creeks, small rivers, and coastal plains. They often live on muddy bottoms in calm or stagnant waters.

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