Biology:Compsaraia samueli
| Compsaraia samueli | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gymnotiformes |
| Family: | Apteronotidae |
| Genus: | Compsaraia |
| Species: | C. samueli
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| Binomial name | |
| Compsaraia samueli (Albert & Crampton, 2009)
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Compsaraia samueli is a species of apteronotid electric fish that exhibits pronounced sexual dimorphism in which mature males develop extremely elongated snouts and oral jaws. [1] This phenotype is found in several other apteronotid species and is used in agonistic jaw-locking behaviors between males.[2] A study comparing skull shape and jaw-closing performance in males and females of Compsaraia samueli suggested that males with elongated faces for use in fights also had lower mechanical advantages, indicating a trade-off between sexual weaponry and jaw leverage.[3]
Named in honor of the senior author’s father, Samuel Albert, who accompanied his son on an electric-fish collecting trip to Peru, and purchased type specimens from a fish market near Iquitos when he recognized that they differed from all the other electric fishes they had been collecting by the prominent elongate jaws of mature males.[4]
References
- ↑ Albert, James S.; Crampton, William G. R. (2009). "A new species of electric knifefish, genus Compsaraia (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) from the Amazon River, with extreme sexual dimorphism in snout and jaw length". Systematics and Biodiversity 7 (1): 81–92. doi:10.1017/S1477200008002934.
- ↑ Triefenbach, Frank A.; Zakon, Harold H. (2008). "Changes in signalling during agonistic interactions between male weakly electric knifefish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus". Animal Behaviour 75 (4): 1263–1272. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.027.
- ↑ Evans, Kory M.; Maxwell, J. Bernt; Kolmann, Matthew A.; Ford, Kassandra L.; Albert, James S. (2019). "Why the long face? Static allometry in the sexually dimorphic phenotypes of Neotropical electric fishes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186 (3): 633–649. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly076.
- ↑ "Order GYMNOTIFORMES (Neotropical Knifefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/gymnotiformes/.
Wikidata ☰ Q7574192 entry
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