| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|80|0}} [[CretaceousKapur (zaman)|Zaman kapur]] – recentsekarang<ref name="Lavoué Miya Arnegard 2012">{{Cite journal |last1=Lavoué |first1=Sébastien |last2=Miya |first2=Masaki |last3=Arnegard |first3=Matthew E. |last4=Sullivan |first4=John P. |last5=Hopkins |first5=Carl D. |last6=Nishida |first6=Mutsumi |date=14 May 2012 |editor-last=Murphy |editor-first=William J. |title=Comparable Ages for the Independent Origins of Electrogenesis in African and South American Weakly Electric Fishes |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=7 |issue=5 |pages=e36287 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0036287 |pmc=3351409 |pmid=22606250 |bibcode=2012PLoSO...736287L |doi-access=free}}</ref>
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| image_caption = Seekor Sidat listrik di [[Akuarium New England]], Amerika Serikat
