Peters's elephantnose fish
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"Elephant nose" redirects here. For the proboscis of an elephant, see Elephant § Trunk.
Peters's elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) is an African freshwater elephantfish in the genus Gnathonemus. Other names in English include elephantnose fish, long-nosed elephant fish, and Ubangi mormyrid, after the Ubangi River. The Latin name petersii is probably for the German naturalist Wilhelm Peters. The fish uses electrolocation to find prey, and has the largest brain-to-body oxygen use ratio of all known vertebrates (around 0.6).[2]
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Peters's elephantnose fish | |
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Elephantnose fish | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
Family: | Mormyridae |
Genus: | Gnathonemus |
Species: | G. petersii |
Binomial name | |
Gnathonemus petersii (Günther, 1862) | |
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