Knollenorgan
See also: knollenorgan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Knollenorgan (literally “tuber organ”), from Knolle + -n- + Organ, because they resemble tubers.
Noun
[edit]Knollenorgan (plural Knollenorgans)
- A tuberous electroreceptor organ found in the skin of weakly electric fish of the family Mormyridae from Africa, which is specialized for electrical communication.
References
[edit]- Bennett, M. V. L. (1965) Electroreceptors in Mormyrids. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium Quantitative Biology. 30:245-262.
- Bennett, M. V. L. (1971) Electroreceptors. In: Fish Physiology, W. S. Hoar and D. J. Randall, Eds., pp. 493-574. Academic Press, New York.
- Franz, V. (1920) Zur mikroscopischen Anatomie der Mormyriden. Zool. Jb. Anat. Abt. 43, 91-148.
- Szabo, T. (1965) Sense organs of the lateral line system of some electric fish of the Gymnotidae, Gymnarchidae, and Mormyridae. J. Morph. 117:229-250.