Actinopterygii · Gymnotiformes
Electric Eel
Electrophorus electricus
Generates biological electricity up to 860 volts and 1 ampere from three specialized abdominal organs, delivering pulses at up to 500 hertz to stun prey or deter predators.
- Realm
- Freshwater
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 303 licence-filtered records across 94 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (43)
- Auburn University Museum Fish Collection (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Censo rapido de especies en recorrido de PVC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Fauna Peces Cinaruco Norte_2021 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Fauna peces_Cinaruco_2016 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Fish (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- LACM Vertebrates (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- NMNH Extant Biology (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- NMNH Material Samples (USNM) (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Oregon State Ichthyology Collection (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Royal Ontario Museum Ichthyology (ROMI) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Universidad de los llanos (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Fish Voucher Collection (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)