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Torpedoes
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Torpedoes

Torpedinidae

The family Torpedinidae contains 22 species of electric rays or torpedoes, flat cartilaginous fishes that produce electricity as a defense and feeding mechanism. They are slow-moving bottom-dwellers.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 21 known species

Torpedo

genusTorpedo

Tetronarce

genusTetronarce

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51326.