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California Fish Grill is a chain of restaurants located in the Greater Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento metropolitan areas, Nevada and Arizona which claim to serve only responsibly sourced seafood. The chain was founded in 1998 in Gardena, California [1] [2] by Victor Topete [3] and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.
Rubio's previously went by the names “Rubio’s Baja Grill” and “Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill.” It took on its current iteration, Rubio's Coastal Grill, in 2015.
Despite the name, the electric eel is a type of knifefish. The Gymnotiformes / dʒ ɪ m ˈ n ɒ t ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are an order of teleost bony fishes commonly known as Neotropical knifefish or South American knifefish. They have long bodies and swim using undulations of their elongated anal fin.
Xenomystus nigri (Günther, 1868) (African brown knifefish) Subfamily Notopterinae Bleeker 1851 (Asian knifefishes, Asian featherbacks) Genus Chitala Fowler, 1934. Chitala blanci (d'Aubenton, 1965) (royal knifefish or Indochina featherback) Chitala borneensis (Bleeker, 1851) (Indonesian featherback) Chitala chitala (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Indian ...
Sand knifefish are freshwater electric fish of the family Rhamphichthyidae, from freshwater habitats in South America. [1] Just like most part of the members of the Gymnotiformes group, they also have elongated and compressed bodies and electric organs. The long anal fin actually extends from before the pectoral fins to the tip of the tail.
The naked-back knifefishes are a family (Gymnotidae) of knifefishes found only in fresh waters of Central America and South America.All have organs adapted to electroreception.
Hypopygus is a genus of South American gymnotiform knifefishes native to the Amazon, Orinoco and upper Paraguay basins, as well as rivers in the Guianas. [1] [2] They are often common, and found near submerged roots, aquatic vegetation and leaf-litter in streams, edges of rivers and floodplains. [1]
[5] [9] Like other Neotropical knifefish, they often lose their tail due to attacks by predators or aggressive encounters with conspecifics, but they are able to regenerate it. [14] The largest Gymnotus are up to 100 cm (3.3 ft) in total length. [5] [9] Most species reach less than one-third that size and the smallest only around 10 cm (4 in) long.