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Milyeringa is a genus of blind cavefish from the Cape Range and Barrow Island, northwestern Australia. Although traditionally considered to belong to the family Eleotridae , studies show that they represent a distinct and far-separated lineage together with the Typhleotris cavefish from Madagascar, leading some to move them to their own family ...
Milyeringa veritas (commonly known as the blind gudgeon) is a species of fish in the family Milyeringidae. It is endemic to groundwater and anchialine systems in caves in the Cape Range, Australia. Like other cave-adapted fish, the blind gudgeon is entirely blind and lacks pigmentation, using sensory papillae on its head and body to move around ...
Milyeringa justitia, commonly known as the Barrow cave gudgeon, is a species of fish in the family Milyeringidae endemic to groundwater systems ( aquifers) of Barrow Island, around 50 km off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia. [4] This troglobitic species has a pale body, lacking in pigment, and it is eyeless and blind, using sensory ...
Cavefish. Garra andruzzii showing the pale colour and lack of eyes typical of cavefish. The large red spot on the head is the blood-filled gills, visible through the semi-transparent gill cover. Cavefish or cave fish is a generic term for fresh and brackish water fish adapted to life in caves and other underground habitats.
The blind cave eel (Ophisternon candidum) is a species of cavefish in the family Synbranchidae.It is the longest cavefish in Australia (up to 40 cm (16 in)) [2] and one of the only three vertebrates in Australia that is restricted to underground waters, the other being the blind gudgeon (Milyeringa veritas) and the Barrow cave gudgeon (Milyeringa justitia). [3]
Milyeringidae, the blind cave gobies, is a small family of gobies, in the order Gobiiformes. [2] There are two genera and six species within the family, which is considered to be a subfamily of the Eleotridae by some authorities. [3] Milyeringidae includes one genus ( Milyeringa) restricted to caves in the North West Cape region of Australia ...
Typhleotris mararybe is a critically endangered species of fish in the family Milyeringidae, the blind cave gobies. It is a troglobitic species endemic to cave habitat in southwestern Madagascar. It is unique among known cave-dwelling fish in that is both blind and darkly pigmented. [2] It has well-developed nonvisual sensory systems and dives ...
These mostly inhabit an anchialine system, a 'lens' of fresh water above the saline ground water, which they share with cave fish species such as the blind cave eel (Ophisternon candidum), and two blind cave gudgeons, Milyeringa veritas and Milyeringa justitia.