numbfish

The electric ray or torpedo: so called from its power of benumbing. Also called cramp-fish. See torpedo.

The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.

An electric ray of the family Narcinidae, capable of delivering numbing shocks.

any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges