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orMNOTIDJi. 



5, GYMNOTUS. 



GymnotuSj sp., of elder authors. 



Gymnotus, Cuv. R^gne Anim. 



Electrophorus, Gill^ Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1864, p. 151. 



Caudal and dorsal fins absent ; anal extending to the end of the 

 tail. Scales none. Teeth conical, in a single series, and with a few 

 other teeth behind it in the middle of each jaw. The mucous mem- 

 brane of the mouth with numerous lobes. Anterior nostril in a 

 short tube near the margin of the lip. Eyes exceedingly smaU. 

 Vent behind the throat. An electric organ along each side of the 

 lower part of the taU. 



Brazil and Guy anas. 



1. Gynmotus electricus. 



Electric Eel. 



Hichter, Mem. Acad. Paris, vii. 1729, p. 325. 



De la Condamine, Voy. dans VAmer. Merid. 1743, 4to. 



Ingram^ Neue Physical. Belustig. i. 1750, p. 288 (Torpedo). 



Allemand (Gravesand),' Verhand. Maatsch- Haarlem, ij, 1755, p. 372, 



(Sidder-vis). 

 Qumilla, Descr. de V Orinoque, iii. p. 136 (Poisson-Trembleur). 

 Gronov. Uityezogene Verhandcl. iii. p. 468, tab. 26. fig. 8 (Beef-aal). 

 Gynmotus, Gronoro. Act. Helvet. iv. 1762, p. 27, tab. 3. figs. 1-3, and 



Zoophyl. p. 41. no. 169; Seha., iii. tab. 34. fig. 6; Mt/sschenbroek, 



Introduct. ad Philos. Nat. Luyd. Batav. 1762, i. p. 290, and in 



Rozier, Journal de Physique, 1776, p. 331 ; Le Roy, Observ. et Me?n. 



sur la Phys. viii. 1776, p. 331 ; Schilling, Neue Abhandl. Akad. 



Berlin, 1770, p. 68. 

 Congeraal, Van der Lott, Verhandl, Maatsch. Haarlem, 1762, p. 87. 

 Lamproie du Para, La Condamine, Voy. a V Amazoiie, p. 154. 

 Fei-min, Surinam, p. 59; Bancroft, Nat. Hist, of Guyana, p. 120; 



Bajon, Mem. pour servir a I'Mst. de Cayenne, 1777, ii. p. 288 ; and 



in Rozier, Journ. de Phys. iii. 1774, p. 47. 

 Prinqle, A Discourse on the Torjjedo. Lond. Roy. Soc. 1775, 4to, 



pp. 32. 

 Gymnotus electricus, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 427 ; Bl. ii. p. 43, taf. 156 ; 



Williamson, Philos. Trans. Ixv. 1775, p. 94 ; Garden, ibid. p. 102 ; 



Hunter, ibid. p. 395, pis. 1-4 ; Lacep. ii. p. 146, pi. 6. fig. 1 ; Bryaivt, 



Tram. Am. Phil. Soc. ii. 1786, p. 166 ; Flagg, ibid. p. 170 ; Fahl- 



berg, Vetcnsk. Ak. ny Handl. 1801, pp. 122-156; Guisan, Bull. 



Sc. Soc. Philom. i. 1. 1797, p. 32 ; Cuv. Regne Anim. ; Geoff roy 



St.-Hilaire, Ann. Mus. d'Hid. Nat. i. 1802, pp. 15, with a plate ; 



Humboldt, Observat. Zool. i. p. 49 ; Knox, Edinb. Journ. Sc. i. 1824, 



p. 96 ; Bradley, in Charlesrvorth's Mag. Nat. Hist 1838, ii. p. 668 ; 



Faraday, Philos. Trans. 1839, p. 1 ; Valentin, Neue Denkschrift. 



Allgem. Schweitz. Gesellsch. vi. 1 842, with 5 plates ; Delia Chiaje, 



Nuov. Ann. Sc. Nat. Bologn. viii. 1847, p. 286; Gronov. Syst. ed. 



Gray, p. 23 ; Kupffer tmd Keferstcin, in Henle und Pfeifer, Zeitschr. 



f. rat. Med. ii. 1858, p. 344." 

 Humboldt, Versuchc iibcr die electrischen Fische. Erfurt, 1806, 8vo. 

 Langguth, Dissertatio de Torpedine recentiorum, genere AnguUla. Wit- 



tenburg, 1778, 4to, pp. 38. 

 Guisan, Comment, de Gymnoto ekttrico. Tiibiug. 1819, 4to, pp. 34. 



