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Frontiers in Zoology BioMed Central Research Open Access The Schnauzenorgan-response of Gnathonemus petersii † † Jacob Engelmann* , Sabine Nöbel , Timo Röver and Gerhard von der Emde Address: University of Bonn, Institute for Zoology, Endenicher Allee 11-13, 53115 Bonn, Germany Email: Jacob Engelmann* - Jacob.Engelmann@uni-bonn.de; Sabine Nöbel - snoebel@uni-bonn.de; Timo Röver - timo.roever@uni-bonn.de; Gerhard von der Emde - vonderemde@uni-bonn.de * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 22 September 2009 Received: 11 May 2009 Accepted: 22 September 2009 Frontiers in Zoology 2009, 6:21 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-21 This article is available from: /content/6/1/21 © 2009 Engelmann et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Electric fish navigate and explore their dark and turbid environment with a specialised electric sense. This active electrolocation involves the generation and perception of an electric signal and fish have proven to be useful model systems for the investigation of sensory- motor interactions. A well studied example is the elephantnose fish, Gnathonemus petersii, which has a characteristic and unique elongated chin