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Fish ID ( electric species )

Nov. 16 2019
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This is one of the mormyrids, related to the elephant-nosed fish, which are known to use their weak electric organs to navigate in muddy waters. However I don't know which species.
ZTL lists the species at Porte Dorée as Brevimyrus niger, Campylomormyrus numenius, Marcusenius mento & Mormyrops anguilloides, although of course this list may be out of date and/or the species may not have been identified correctly (this is a difficult family of fishes, most of which are rarely or never imported): comparing these names with the images from FishBase and Google, I don't think any of these names match the fish in this photo.
Perhaps it might be Mormyrus kannume or Mormyrus rume which is imported from Nigeria occasionally and has spawned in aquaria.
 

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Palais de la Porte Dorée Aquarium
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Device
Canon Canon EOS 2000D
Aperture
ƒ/5
Focal length
39.0 mm
Exposure time
1/10 second(s)
ISO
3200
Flash
Off, did not fire
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IMG_1488 fish id electric fish-species.jpg
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1.5 MB
Date taken
Sat, 01 January 2000 12:01 AM
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3329px x 2497px

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