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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 Amblyopsidae are a fish family commonly referred to as cavefish, blindfish, or swampfish. They are small freshwater fish found in the dark environments of caves (underground lakes, pools, rivers and streams), springs and swamps in the eastern half of the United States. Like other troglobites, most amblyopsids exhibit adaptations to these ...
The Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus), also known as the blind cave fish, blind cave characin or the blind cave tetra, is a freshwater fish in the Characidae family (tetras and relatives) of the order Characiformes. [4][5] The type species of its genus, it is native to the Nearctic realm, originating in the lower Rio Grande, and the Neueces ...
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]
Waterfall climbing cave fish; Widemouth blindcat; Y. Yunnanilus bailianensis This page was last edited on 19 May 2020, at 19:21 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The olm as depicted by the French biologist Gaston Bonnier in 1907. The olm's body is snakelike, 20–30 cm (8–12 in) long, with some specimens reaching up to 40 centimetres (16 in), which makes them some of the largest cave-dwelling animals in the world. [13][14] The average length is between 23 and 25 cm. [15] Females grow larger than males ...
Alabama cavefish. The Alabama cavefish (Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni) is a critically endangered species of amblyopsid cavefish found only in underground pools in Key Cave, located in northwestern Alabama, United States in the Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge. [6] It was discovered underneath a colony of gray bats in 1967 by researchers Robert A ...
The Ozark cavefish, Amblyopsis rosae, is a small subterranean freshwater fish endemic to the United States.It has been listed as a threatened species in the US since 1984; [3] [4] the IUCN currently lists the species as Near Threatened, though it was previously listed as Vulnerable (VU D1+2 v2.3) between 1986 and 1996. [1]