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Angler scoops up weakly electric creature from riverbed 
By Aspen Pflughoeft MZ Source: miamiherald 12/4/2024
Aspen Pflughoeft
Credit: Roger Bills via Dierickx, Lunkayilakio, Bills and Vreven (2024)
Anglers in Mozambique spread a net across a murky stream and scraped it along the streambed. When they checked their catch, they found a “weakly electric” creature with a “thick” tail. It turned out to be a new species.
 

Scientists in central and eastern Africa undertook a large project: comprehensively analyze a group of “understudied” fish known as Pollimyrus, or elephantfish, according to a study published Nov. 24 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fish Biology. Researchers suspected some of these “weakly electric” fish were being misidentified.

 
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