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African Knifefish
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Kingdom Animalia -- Phylum Chordata -- Subphylum Vertebrata -- Class Actinopterygii -- Order Osteoglossiformes -- Suborder Notopteroidei -- Family Gymnarchidae -- Species Gymnarchus niloticus
Range: Nile, Niger, Volta, Chad, and Gambia rivers in Africa.
The African Knifefish, also known as Aba Aba, is nocturnal and feeds on insects and small fish. Gymnarchus niloticus is a weakly electric fish. This species is one of the larger electric fish and reaches a length of 167 cm and a weight of 19 kg.
This Category of images includes:
African Elephant Nose,
African Knifefish
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Altolamprologus calvus
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Altolamprologus calvus
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American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) Anguillidae
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Archer Fish (Toxotes jaculator) Toxoridae,
Asian Arawana (Soleropages formosus) Osteoglossidae
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Australian Lungfish
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Bala Shark (Balantgiocheilus melanopterus) Cyprinidae
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Black-barred Myleus (Myleus schomburgkii) Serrasalmidae
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Black Cichlid (Vieja maculicauda)
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Black Phantom Tetra (Megalamphedus megalopterus) Characidae
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Blind Cave Tetra (Astyanax mixicanus)
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Blue Gourami (Trichogaster tricopterus)
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Boeseman's Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia boesemani)
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Brown Trout,
Chinook Salmon
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Cardinal Tetra
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Clown Loach (Botia macracatha) Cobitidae
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Common Shiner (Notropis cornutus) Cyprinidae
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Congo Tetra
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Congo Tetra
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Cory Doris
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Cyphotilapia frontosa (Cichlidae)
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Cyprichromis microlepidotus (Cichlidae)
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Discus Fish
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Eduard's Mbuna (Psudotropheus socolofi)
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Electric Catfish (Malapterurus electricus) Malapteruridae
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Electric Catfish
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Electric Eel
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Fire-mouth Cicilids
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Flourescent Peacock Cichlid (Awlonocara stuartgranti)
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Giant Gourami (Osphroneus goramy) Osphronemidae
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Glass Catfish (Kryptopterus bicirrhis) Siluridae
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Glass Fish
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Green Cory Doris
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Green Serran
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Guppies
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Haplochromus venustes
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Hengels Rasbora (Rasbora hengeli) Cyprinidae
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Jewel Cichlid
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Jewel Cichlids
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Kissing Fish/Kissing Gourami (Helostomatemminckii) Helostomatidae
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Kribensis
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Labidochromis nbenji (Cichlidae)
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Lake Chad Cichlids
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Lake Malawi Cichlids
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Lake Tanganyika Cichlids
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Longnose Gar (Lepisosteus osseus) Lepisosteidae,
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Neon Tetra (Paracheirodon innesi) Charachidae
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Oscar
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Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus)
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Parrot Cichlid (Cichlasoma psittacum) Cichlidae
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Pearl Gourami (Trichogaster leeri)
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Pearl Tetra
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Pike Characin
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Piranha (Serrasalmus rhombeus) Serrasalmidae
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Rainbow Fish (Melanotaeniidae)
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Rainbow Trout
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Red (Sockeye) Salmon
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Red Swordtail (Xiphophorus helleri) Poeciliidae
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Red Swordtail (Xiphorus helleri) Poeciliidae
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Red-tailed Catfish
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Redear Sunfish
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Redhook Dollar (Myleus rubripinnis) Characidae
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Siluridae
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Sweepline Brycon (Brycon Melanopteros) Characidae
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White Striped Pim (Pimelodus albofasciatus) Pimelodidae
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Winter Run Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytsha)
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Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) Percidae
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Zebra Cichlid (Pseudotripheus zebra)
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Zebra Danio
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