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Science 1 February 1980:
Vol. 207. no. 4430, pp. 547 - 548
DOI: 10.1126/science.7352266
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Science, Vol 207, Issue 4430, 547-548
Copyright © 1980 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Electroreception in the ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei)

RD Fields and GD Lange

Behavioral and neurophysiological experiments and anatomical work indicate that the ampullar structures on the head of fish of the subclass Holocephali are sense organs responsive to weak electric fields and are functionally and structurally homologous to the ampullae of Lorenzini in elasmobranchs. It is concluded that, as in elasmobranchs, these organs are used to detect bioelectric and other natural electric phenomena in the environment.


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