{"id":752,"date":"2026-06-16T23:13:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/fish-species\/mormyrids\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:28:36","slug":"mormyrids","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/fish-species\/mormyrids\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormyrids"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mormyrids<\/h1>\n<p>Mormyrids (family Mormyridae) are extraordinary freshwater fish from Africa that generate weak electrical pulses to navigate, communicate and detect prey in murky waters. Sometimes called elephantfish due to their distinctive trunk-like snouts, they are highly intelligent fish with proportionally large brains. The Elephantnose Fish is the most popular species in the aquarium hobby. Browse our Mormyrid species guides below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mormyrids Mormyrids (family Mormyridae) are extraordinary freshwater fish from Africa that generate weak electrical pulses to navigate, communicate and detect prey in murky waters. Sometimes called elephantfish due to their distinctive trunk-like snouts, they are highly intelligent fish with proportionally large brains. The Elephantnose Fish is the most popular species in the aquarium hobby. Browse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403,"parent":252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tankora-directory.php","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-752","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752\/revisions\/753"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankora.co.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}