| | | Series foreword by T. J. Pitcher | | |
| | | Foreword by Hans W. Lissmann | | |
| | | Preface | | |
| | | Introduction: electric fishes in perspective | | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | | History | | 3 |
| 1 | | A history of bioelectrogenesis | | 5 |
| 2 | | A history of electroreception by Bernd Fritzsch and Peter Moller | | 39 |
| Pt. 2 | | Behavior of Strongly Discharging Electric Fish | | 57 |
| 3 | | The African electric catfish Malapterurus electricus (Malapteruridae) by Peter Moller and Catherine H. Rankin | | 61 |
| 4 | | Marine electric rays (Torpedinidae), the South American electric eel Electrophorus electricus (Electrophoridae) and electric stargazers (Uranoscopidae) | | 77 |
| Pt. 3 | | Behavior of Weakly Discharging Electric Fish | | 105 |
| 5 | | Active electrolocation | | 111 |
| 6 | | Passive electrolocation | | 133 |
| 7 | | Coping with foreign signals: jamming avoidance and phase-locking | | 143 |
| 8 | | Basic elements of electrocommunication systems | | 167 |
| 9 | | Electric models and the study of electrocommunication | | 199 |
| 10 | | Controlled interactions in pairs of fish by Peter Moller and Jacques Serrier | | 223 |
| 11 | | Social interactions in free-swimming fish | | 235 |
| 12 | | Reproduction and development in mormyriform and gymnotiform fishes by Frank Kirschbaum | | 267 |
| 13 | | Sources of plasticity in behavior and its physiology: sex, hormones, environment and the captivity model by Robert E. Landsman | | 303 |
| 14 | | Locomotor and electric organ discharge rhythms | | 345 |
| 15 | | Non-electric senses and behavior | | 361 |
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