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Cavefish or cave fish is a generic term for fresh and brackish water fish adapted to life in caves and other underground habitats. Related terms are subterranean fish, troglomorphic fish, troglobitic fish, stygobitic fish, phreatic fish, and hypogean fish.
- Amblyopsidae
The Amblyopsidae are a fish family commonly referred to as...
- Neolissochilus pnar
Neolissochilus pnar is a species of subterranean cyprinid in...
- Amblyopsidae
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.
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] .
cave fish, any of the pale, blind, cave-dwelling fishes of the genera Amblyopsis and Typhlichthys, family Amblyopsidae. Cave fishes are small, growing to about 10 cm (4 inches) long, and are found in fresh water in dark limestone caves of the United States.
12 lut 2020 · Biologist Daniel Harries holds one of the newfound cave fish, the world’s largest, in Um Ladaw Cave, in the Meghalaya state of northeast India.
11 lip 2023 · Astyanax mexicanus exists in two forms: a surface form that is abundantly distributed throughout freshwater bodies in Middle America and a blind subterranean form endemic to caves in northeastern...
Neolissochilus pnar is a species of subterranean cyprinid in the genus Neolissochilus. It is the largest known subterranean fish, a title formerly held by the blind cave eel. [1] Discovery and naming. N. pnar was first observed in the 1990s, and only collected and photographed for study in 2019. [2] .
