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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 14 points 3 days ago

they also arnt EELs, they are a type of knifefish, which are a sister clade to CATFISH, which also can produce electricity in some species.

[-] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago
[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 10 points 3 days ago

yes they do, but not as a useful, well defined category in biology.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago

it's a morphological category, not cladistic.

Like how "tree" is any plant with a thick robust trunk and branchy crown.

[-] sem 1 points 3 hours ago

You're a tree!

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