⚡Electric eel
電鰻是一種以能短暫強力放電而聞名的淡水魚類。體型粗圓而長，最大可長達250公分左右，棲息在南美洲的亞馬遜河及奧里諾科河流域，生性晝伏夜出，以捕食小魚為主。被发现闻名是早在16世纪，西班牙探险者乘马渡过亚马逊河小支流时，数次马腿踩到电鳗被电才发现。 電鰻雖名為“鰻”，但並不是鰻的一種，在生物分類上，電鰻和鯰魚更為接近，皆置於骨鳔总目之下。儘管如此，電鰻不能叫作電鯰，因為電鯰已是存在於非洲的魚類名稱。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.
- Body mass
- 20 kg
- Body length
- 2.5 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 13 years
Everything we know about the Electric eel
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass20 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2.5 mmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan13 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic level3.89FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.89 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansotherFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l20 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Electric eel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderGymnotiformes
- ›familyGymnotidae
- ›genusElectrophorus
- ›speciesElectrophorus electricus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- superorderCharaciphysae
- orderGymnotiformes
- genusElectrophorus
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderCharaciphysae
- orderGymnotiformes
- genusElectrophorus
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