Author: Sauvage, 1879
Comments: Possesses electroreceptors over the entire head and on the ventral and dorsal regions of the body, but absent from the side and the caudal peduncle where the electric organ is located  (Ref. 10011).  Found schooling with other species having identical electric organ discharge (EOD) waveforms (Ref. 10460).  A fractional spawner (Ref. 10605, 10606). Entomophagous (Ref. 51193).