Gymnotus

The Gymnotes ( Gymnotus ) are Poisson S of fresh water of Central America and Southern. They have all of the electric bodies (called électroplaques or électrocyte).

The gymnotes live on banks of the encumbered rivers of dead sheets and roots and in the flooded meadows. They are the predatory night ones nourishing insects, the crustacean ones and other fish. They produce an electric field in order to locate objects, and can be to communicate. The electric shocks of this fish can reach 800 volts. To move this fish uses a paraxial locomotion, more precisely its stroke follows the anal undulatory mode, i.e. only its anal fin functions.

List of Gymnotes

According to ITIS:

Gymnotus anguillaris Hoedeman, 1962
Gymnotus arapaima Albert and Crampton, 2001
Gymnotus bahianus Campos-da-Paz and Costa, 1996
Gymnotus carapo Linnaeus, 1758
Gymnotus cataniapo Mago-Leccia, 1994
Gymnotus choco Albert, Crampton and Maldonado in Albert and Crampton, 2003
Gymnotus coatesi Assembles It, 1935
Gymnotus coropinae Hoedeman, 1962
Gymnotus cylindricus Assembles It, 1935
Gymnotus diamantinensis Campos-da-Paz, 2002
Gymnotus esmeraldas Albert and Crampton, 2003
neighed Gymnotus Albert, Crampton and Maldonado in Albert and Crampton, 2003
Gymnotus inaequilabiatus (Valencian, 1842)
Gymnotus javari Albert, Crampton and Hagedorn in Albert and Crampton, 2003
Gymnotus jonasi Albert and Crampton, 2001
Gymnotus maculosus Albert and Miller, 1995
Gymnotus mamiraua Albert and Crampton, 2001
Gymnotus will melanopleura Albert and Crampton, 2001
Gymnotus onca Albert and Crampton, 2001
Gymnotus panamensis Albert and Crampton, 2003
Gymnotus pantherinus (Steindachner, 1908)
Gymnotus paraguensis Albert and Crampton, 2003
Gymnotus pedanopterus Mago-Leccia, 1994
Gymnotus stenoleucus Mago-Leccia, 1994
Gymnotus sylvius Albert and Fernandes-Matioli in Albert and Al, 1999
Gymnotus tiger Albert and Crampton, 2003
Gymnotus will ucamara Crampton, Lovejoy and Albert, 2003

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