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Knollenorgan
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knollenorgan
English
Etymology
en de Knollenorgan tuber organ, from de Knolle -n- Organ 1, because they resemble tubers.
Noun
A tuberous electroreceptor organ found in the skin of weakly electric fish of the family Mormyridae family from Africa, which is specialized for electrical communication.
References
Bennett, M. V. L. (1965) Electroreceptors in Mormyrids. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium Quantitative Biology. 30:245-262.
Bennett, M. V. L. (1971) Electroreceptors. In: Fish Physiology, W. S. Hoar and D. J. Randall, Eds., pp. 493-574. Academic Press, New York.
Franz, V. (1920) Zur mikroscopischen Anatomie der Mormyriden. Zool. Jb. Anat. Abt. 43, 91-148.
Szabo, T. (1965) Sense organs of the lateral line system of some electric fish of the Gymnotidae, Gymnarchidae, and Mormyridae. J. Morph. 117:229-250.