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- Compsaraia is a genus of ghost knifefishes found in tropical South America. There are currently three described species in this genus. They are found deep...
- Compsaraia samueli, the pelican knifefish, is a species of apteronotid electric fish from the western Amazon basin of Brazil and Peru. It exhibits pronounced...
- species in 16 genera. Genus Adontosternarchus Genus Apteronotus Genus Compsaraia Genus Megadontognathus Genus Melanosternarchus Genus Orthosternarchus...
- independently multiple times. In Apteronotus rostratus and some others, such as Compsaraia samueli, mature males grow extremely elongated snouts and oral jaws which...
- to cavefish (reduced pigment and eyes). Among these are the knifefish Compsaraia and Orthosternarchus, some Cetopsis whale catfish (especially C. oliveirai)...
- cramptoni, is overall whitish-pink, similar to some other knifefish like Compsaraia and Orthosternarchus that inhabit deep, dark rivers. Very little is known...
- 1985 Adontosternarchus devenanzii Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985 Compsaraia compsus (Mago Leccia, 1994) Megadontognathus cuyuniense Mago-Leccia, 1994...