Author: Sullivan & Hopkins, 2009
Comments: Inhabits clear, shallow, standing water in open savanna, or savanna mixed with stands of <i>Mauritia</i> palm.  Collected in the vegetation along the banks of small pools fed by steams.  Occurs inactive during the day among the stems and roots of emergent grasses and sedges.  Encountered only in very low conductivity water (<25 μS/cm) where  it usually co-inhabits with <i>Brachyhypopomus brevirostris</i>.  The electric organ discharge waveform is biphasic, 0.9-1.6 milliseconds in duration, and the pulse rate ranges from 20 to 80 Hz (Ref. 81045).