Volta’s Electric Eel

Fish > Gymnotidae & Electric Eels

Volta’s Electric Eel (Electrophorus voltai) is a monumental freshwater apex predator native to the upland rivers of the Brazilian Shield in South America. Formally described by scientists in 2019, this extraordinary knifefish holds the undisputed world record...

Marbled Lungfish

Fish > Lungfishes

The Marbled Lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus) is an ancient sarcopterygian (lobe-finned) fish that represents a living evolutionary portal into the transition of aquatic vertebrates to terrestrial land life. Inhabiting the stagnant, oxygen-poor swamps and papyrus...

South American Lungfish

Fish > Lobe-finned Fishes

The South American Lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), locally known in South America as the Piramboia, is a living fossil that represents one of vertebrate evolution’s most remarkable bridges between fish and terrestrial four-legged animals. Endemic to the...

West African Lungfish

Fish > Bony Fishes

The West African Lungfish (Protopterus annectens) is an ancient, legendary, and biologically mind-bending freshwater sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) native to the floodplains, sluggish swamps, and seasonal wetlands of sub-Saharan Africa. Standing as one of the...

Electric Eel

Fish > Gymnotiforms

The Electric Eel (Electrophorus electricus) is one of the most astonishing, bio-electrically capable creatures in the natural world, a freshwater apex predator native to the murky streams and shaded swamp waters of northeastern South America. Despite its elongated,...