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IN Sir Horace Rumbold's “Great Silver River” (London, 1887), the author, when on the Upper Uruguay above Uruguayana, speaks of a “kind of Electric Eel (Gymnotus) called here Rayo or Lightning, of the effects of contact with which, very curious and unrelateable stories are told.”
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SCLATER, P. Electric Fishes in the River Uruguay. Nature 38, 148 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038148d0
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