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Old 02-14-2006, 12:07 AM   #1
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Default electric eel

Although the electric may look like an eel, it really isn't a true eel, but specially adapted fish related to what other species?
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Old 02-14-2006, 07:43 AM   #2
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Snakes?
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Old 02-14-2006, 08:34 AM   #3
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oh man, ichthyology was way too long ago... ummm i think its the order gymnotiformes or the knifefish/electric eel order.
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knife fish??
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Old 02-14-2006, 08:38 AM   #5
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now comes another question, how much juice does an electric eel give off?
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Old 02-14-2006, 10:16 AM   #6
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up to 600 volts. DC.
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Old 02-14-2006, 10:19 AM   #7
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lol of coarse the old salt knows, 550-650 volts was the range our ichthyology professor gave us.
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Aren't they in the Ray family?
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So instead of stun guns cops should carry Eels?!

I think their part of the catfish family

Or am i thinking of the electric catfish?
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im pretty sure that they are part of the knifefish family.
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Have you guys considered the possibility that this is a trick question?
( or was that a trick question...? )

Yes MP, you're thinking Electric catfish, in it's own subfamily of Malapteridae.
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how would it be a trick question? They are in the same order as knifefish.
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uh fishfreaks have an electric catfish named sausage..........
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lol, yeah and it's totally awesome. you should post more pics of it fishfreaks.
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Orders & families are completely different things.
The Electric Eel is in it's own family.
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