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===Electric fields=== [[File:Elektroplax_Rochen.png|thumb|An [[electric ray]] ([[Torpediniformes]]) showing location of electric organ and electrocytes stacked within it]] {{further|Electroreception and electrogenesis|Electric organ (fish)}} Several groups of predatory fish have the ability to detect, track, and sometimes, as in the [[electric ray]], to incapacitate their prey by [[Electroreception and electrogenesis|sensing and generating electric fields]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1= Castello, M. E. |author2=A. Rodriguez-Cattaneo |author3=P. A. Aguilera |author4=L. Iribarne |author5=A. C. Pereira |author6=A. A. Caputi |title=Waveform generation in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus coropinae (Hoedeman): the electric organ and the electric organ discharge |journal=Journal of Experimental Biology |volume=212 |year=2009 |pages=1351–1364 |doi=10.1242/jeb.022566 |issue=9 |pmid=19376956 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2009JExpB.212.1351C }}</ref><ref name="Feulner, P. G., M. Plath, J. Engelmann, F. Kirschbaum, R. Tiedemann 2009 225–228">{{cite journal |author1= Feulner, P. G. |author2=M. Plath |author3=J. Engelmann |author4=F. Kirschbaum |author5=R. Tiedemann |title=Electrifying love: electric fish use species-specific discharge for mate recognition |journal=Biology Letters |volume=5 |issue=2 |year=2009 |pages=225–228 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2008.0566|pmid=19033131 |pmc= 2665802 }}</ref><ref name="Catania2015">{{cite journal |last= Catania |first= Kenneth C. |title= Electric eels use high-voltage to track fast-moving prey |journal= Nature Communications |volume=6 |issue=1 |year=2015 |pages=8638 |doi=10.1038/ncomms9638 |pmid=26485580 |pmc=4667699 |bibcode=2015NatCo...6.8638C}}</ref> The electric organ is derived from modified nerve or muscle tissue.<ref name=Kramer1996>{{cite book |doi=10.5283/epub.2108 |date=1996 |last1=Kramer |first1=Bernd |title=Electroreception and communication in fishes |volume=42 |publisher=Universität Regensburg |isbn=978-3-437-25038-5 }}</ref>
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