Campylomormyrus tamanduaWorm-Jawed Mormyrid
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Max length
400mm SL16in SL
The worm-jawed mormyrid, Campylomormyrus tamandua, is a benthic mormyrid recorded from nine countries in West and Central Africa. It sometimes arrives among imports of the elephant fish, Gnathonemus petersii, but has both jaws extended into a beak-like shape. It needs pristine soft, acidic water, generally refuses standard foods and grows to 400 mm SL. Like other mormyrids it produces a weak electric field, used to navigate and to communicate.