The elongate snouts or trunks of some mormyroids and gymnotiforms may have arisen secondarily as an adaptation to the specific types and habits of prey organisms found in the ecological niches exploited by active electrosensory predators.

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• Gymnotiformes concept
• Mormyroids concept