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- Torpedinidae abstract "The family Torpedinidae contains 22 species of electric rays or torpedoes, flat cartilaginous fishes that produce electricity as a defense and feeding mechanism. They are slow-moving bottom-dwellers.The largest species is the Atlantic torpedo, Tetronarce nobiliana, which can grow to a weight of 90 kilograms and deliver a 220-volt electric shock. Electric rays have patches of modified muscle cells called electroplaques that make up an electric organ. These generate an electric gradient, similar to the normal electric potential across most cell membranes, but amplified greatly by its concentration into a very small area. The electricity can be stored in the tissues, which act as a battery. The shock can be discharged in pulses. A ray can emit a shock into the body of a prey animal to stun it and make it easier to capture and eat, or into the body of a predator. Tissue from electric rays is often used in neurobiological research because of its unique properties.Torpedo rays are flat like other rays, disc-shaped, with caudal fins that vary in length. Their mouths and gill slits are located on their undersides. Males have claspers near the base of the tail. Females are ovoviviparous, meaning they form eggs but do not lay them. The young emerge from the eggs within the body of the female, and she gives live birth. The young are called pups.The naval weapon known as the torpedo was named after this genus, whose own name has the same Latin origin as the English word torpid, meaning "sluggish" or "lethargic," presumably the sensations one would feel after experiencing the ray's electric shock.".
- Torpedinidae class Chondrichthyes.
- Torpedinidae class Elasmobranchii.
- Torpedinidae kingdom Animal.
- Torpedinidae order Electric_ray.
- Torpedinidae phylum Chordate.
- Torpedinidae thumbnail Atlantic_torpedo_(_Torpedo_nobiliana_).jpg?width=300.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageID "2395498".
- Torpedinidae wikiPageLength "5685".
- Torpedinidae wikiPageOutDegree "77".
- Torpedinidae wikiPageRevisionID "673531983".
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Aden_Gulf_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Aleksandr_Nicholaevich_Kotlyar.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Antoine_Risso.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Argentine_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Battery_(electricity).
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Blackspotted_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Carl_Linnaeus.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Carolus_Linnaeus.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Live-bearing_fish.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Torpedinidae.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Torpediniformes.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Lucien_Bonaparte.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Lucien_Jules_Laurent_Bonaparte.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Chilean_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Chondrichthyes.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Christian_Capapé.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Clasper.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Common_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink David_A._Ebert.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Diane_Lee_Haas.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Don_Fernando_de_Buen_y_Lozano.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Elasmobranchii.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Electric_organ.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Electric_ray.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Electricity.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Fernando_Lahille.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Florida_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Franz_Steindachner.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_Wollaston_Hutton.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Gilbert_Percy_Whitley.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Harvey_R._Bullis.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Ignaz_von_Olfers.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Jan_Marie_Metzelaar.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Jean_Cadenat.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Leonid_Georgievich_Manilo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Leopard_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Marbled_electric_ray.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Marcelo_Rodrigues_de_Carvalho.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Martine_Desoutter-Méniger.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Martinus_Houttuyn.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Matthias_Stehmann.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Muscle.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Neuroscience.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink New_Zealand_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Nikolai_Vasilyevich_Parin.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Ovoviviparity.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Pacific_electric_ray.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Shigeho_Tanaka.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Smalldisk_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce_californica.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce_cowleyi.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce_fairchildi.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce_formosa.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce_macneilli.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce_nobiliana.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce_puelcha.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce_tokionis.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Tetronarce_tremens.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Theodore_Gill.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Theodore_Nicholas_Gill.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpediniformes.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_(genus).
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_adenensis.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_alexandrinsis.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_andersoni.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_bauchotae.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_fuscomaculata.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_mackayana.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_marmorata.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_microdiscus.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_panthera.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_semipelagica.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_sinuspersici.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_suessii.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_torpedo.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink Wilhelm_Peters.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLink William_Orville_Ayres.
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLinkText "Torpedinidae - Torpedo Rays".
- Torpedinidae wikiPageWikiLinkText "Torpedinidae".
- Torpedinidae classis Chondrichthyes.
- Torpedinidae familia "Torpedinidae".