weakly electric fish

C59079
concept

A weakly electric fish is an aquatic animal that generates low-voltage electric fields to sense its environment, communicate, and navigate rather than to stun prey or defend itself.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
weakly electric fish canonical 2
electric catfish 1
electric fish 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: weakly electric fish
Generated description
A weakly electric fish is an aquatic animal that generates low-voltage electric fields to sense its environment, communicate, and navigate rather than to stun prey or defend itself.

Instances (4)

Instance Via concept surface
Malapterurus electricus electric catfish
Gnathonemus petersii
Mormyrus kannume electric fish
Gymnarchus niloticus