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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Torpediniformes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Electric rays (order Torpediniformes) are fish that have a rounded body and a pair of organs capable of producing an electric discharge, which is used to stun or kill prey.
The electric rays of the torpediniform group are also perhaps the only reasonably diverse taxon in which essentially all members use electric organs as a means of predation.
Given that torpediniforms are fond of relatively large, fast-moving fish, and that the ray is covered with sediment, this operation requires remarkable speed and strength.
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 Torpediniformes - Karr.net (Karr Network)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Electric rays (order Torpediniformes) are fish that have a rounded body and a pair of organs capable of producing an electric discharge, varying from as little as 8 volts to up to 220 volts depending on the species, which is used to stun or kill prey.
Perhaps the most known members are those of the genus Torpedo, also called crampfish and numbfish, after which the device called a torpedo is named.
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 Palaeos Vertebrates: 80.700  Neoselachii: Hypnosqualea
Either the Pristidae, the true sawfish, come next, or the electric rays of the Torpediniformes.
Most torpediniforms have relatively poor vision and some are effectively blind.
Speed is also necessary for prey capture, as the ray depends on the undercurrent created by its "jump" to suck the fish in under its mantle.
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 Biological Batteries
Electrogenic rays are sluggish, feeble swimmers that spend most of their daylight hours lying on the bottom at favored sites partially buried in the mud or sand, generally preferring the shallows; at night, they actively forage over nearby mud or sand bottoms, kelp forest floors, or over reef faces.
All electrogenic rays are classified within the order Torpediniformes, containing four families, nine genera and between 37 and 40 species.
The family Torpedindae is composed of a single genus (Torpedo) and some 14 to 17 species; torpedo rays are characterized by a round or oval flabby body disc with a straight or slightly notched anterior margin, two dorsal fins, slender jaws lacking labial cartilages, and a short tail with a well developed caudal (tail) fin.
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 Torpediniformes - Qwika   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Torpediniformes Torpediniformes Systematics Class : Cartilage fish (Chondrichtyes) Subclass Plattenkiemer (Elasmobranchii) Putting above : Skate (Batoidea) Order : Torpediniformes Scientific name Torpediniformes Families Narcinidae Trembling skate (Torpedinidae) Those Torpediniformes skates are too the two sides...
Narcinidae Torpedinidae Electric rays (order Torpediniformes) are fish that have a rounded body...
Elasmobranchii Superorden: Rajomorphii Órdenes Rajiformes Myliobatiformes Pristiformes Torpediniformes Rajiforme in Is Life Helsinki Rajomorphii it...
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 MavicaNET - Torpediniformes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Catálogo / Naturaleza / Vida / Animales / Peces (Pisces) / Cartilaginosos Chondrichthyes / Torpediniformes
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 How a torpedo works -DAWN Science; September 24, 2005
Torpedoes can travel several miles to reach their targets and, therefore, need a propulsion system that can run for 10 to 20 minutes.
The word “torpedo” is derived from the name of a fish torpediniformes — which is capable of producing an electric discharge that stuns or kills its prey.
In the 19th century, Robert Fulton — an American engineer who developed the first steam-powered ship — designed a device that was coupled with a mass of gunpowder to enable it to explode beneath enemy ships.
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 Torpedo
They are also used as parts of other weapons; the Mark 46 torpedo used by the United States becomes the warhead section of the ASROC (Anti-Submarine ROCket) and the Captor mine uses a submerged sensor platform that releases a torpedo when a hostile contact is detected.
The word torpedo comes from the Torpedo genus of electric rays in the order Torpediniformes, which in turn comes from the Latin "torpere", to be stiffened or paralyzed.
There is no physical resemblance between the ray and the mechanical torpedo.
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 MavicaNET - Электрические скаты (Torpediniformes)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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 Pristiformes - Qwika
Batoidae), to which one those Orders that Pristiformes, Torpediniformes and Rajiformes place about two thirds...
Rajiformes- common rays and skates Pristiformes - sawfishes Torpediniformes - electric rays See text for...
Subclass: Elasmobranchii Superorden: Rajomorphii Órdenes Rajiformes Myliobatiformes Pristiformes Torpediniformes Rajiforme in Is Life Helsinki Rajomorphii...
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 Torpedo Summary
7: any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges [syn: electric ray, crampfish, numbfish]
The torpedo, named after an electric shock-giving fish, was originally applied to explosive charges moored at sea (now called mines).
The word torpedo comes from the torpedo genus of electric rays in the order Torpediniformes, which in turn comes from the Latin "torpere", to stun.
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 Torpediniformes
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Erklärung des Begriff Torpediniformes und dessen Bedeutung wurde zuletzt am 20.12.2006 aktualisiert (Glossar Lexikon Enzyklopädie).
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 Torpediniformes - French-English Dictionary WordReference.com
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 The World
          Torpediniformes or Electric Rays have many characteristics that makes them unique the characteristics are as follows:
Large, kidney-shaped electrogenic organs (derived from branchial musculature) at base of pectoral fins
The torpediniform rays have fascinated naturalists for years; being known for their highly specialized electrogenic organs.
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 Rays & Sharks. In: Marine Biodiversity - An Introduction. Author: Peter Dyrynda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Orders Rajiformes and Torpediniformes - Rays, Skates, Electric Rays
Rays are dorso-ventrally flattened cartilagenous fish with greatly enlarged pectoral fins.
The very low fecundity of rays provides little potential to reverse declines following episodes of unsustainable fishing.
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 Glossary Searched Term   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Fishes of the Family Torpedinidae, Order Torpediniformes (electric rays).
See FishBase for more information on this Family.
Poissons de la famille des Torpedinidae, ordre des Torpediniformes (torpilles).
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