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What were electric eels called before electricity was discovered?

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ABCDEF7 · M
Indigenous people in Venezuela called the electric eel arimana, which means "something that deprives you of motion".

Early European naturalists called the electric eel the numb-eel.

The electric eel is actually a knifefish, not an eel, and is a freshwater teleost that produces electric discharges.
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
@ABCDEF7 Arimana sounds so much nicer then electric eel...