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snailfish-enthusiast · 1 year

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Cave fish time!!

Cryptotora thamicola or the waterfall climbing cave fish are extremely rare, found in only eight caves on the border of Thailand and Myanmar. Like most cave fish they are blind and pigmentless but what makes them special is there ability to cling to walls and climb up flowing water.

#fishblr #marine biology #caves #spelunking #cave fish #caving #nature #strange #gif #fish facts #fish #fresh water

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herpsandbirds · 1 month

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Unicorn Blind Cave Fish (Sinocyclocheilus longicornus), family Cyprinidae, order Cypriniformes, found in caves in Guizhou Province, China

Discovered in 2023.

photograph via: Sinocyclocheilus longicornus (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae), a new species of microphthalmic hypogean fish from Guizhou, Southwest China (pensoft.net)

#cave fish #sinocyclocheilus #cyprinidae #cypriniformes #fish #caves #asia #animals #nature #ichthyology

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feather-bone · 7 months

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The Mexican Tetra! It's got a regular ol' river fish form and a special fancy blind cave fish form, pictured here. Some populations have some intermingling between cave and river forms, and an intermediate, half-cave-half-river form can be observed.

[ID: an illustration of a pink, gold, and white cave fish, with no eyes. the background is water, dense with aquatic plants, and several other fish (both the tetra's cave form and silvery, seeing, river form) are visible. end.]

#fish #cave fish #fishes #ichthyology #fishblr #animals #daily creature

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typhlonectes · 1 year

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The world’s largest cave fish from Meghalaya, Northeast India, is a new species, Neolissochilus pnar (Cyprinidae, Torinae)

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The world’s largest subterranean fish was discovered in 2019, and was tentatively identified as a troglomorphic form of the golden mahseer, Tor putitora.

Detailed analyses of its morphometric and meristic data, and results from molecular analyses now reveal that it is a new species of the genus Neolissochilus, the sister taxon of Tor.

We formally describe the new species as Neolissochilus pnar, honouring the tribal communities of East Jaintia hills in Meghalaya, Northeast India, from where it was discovered. Neolissochilus pnar possesses a number of characters unique among species of Neolissochilus, with the exception of the similarly subterranean N. subterraneus from Thailand...

Read the paper here:

https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/101011/

#fish #ichthyology #science #aquatic #freshwater #animals #nature #india #asia #caves #cave fish

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nonexistent-creature · 6 months

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To me engineers are kinda like those fish that got trapped in a dark cave and lost their eyes so now they navigate (and therfore survive) by sucking (the fish literally the engineer metaphorically).

#engineering #cave fish

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gesturetime · 1 year

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Getting back to it!

Mermay - Mushroom

#mermay #mermay 2023 #mermaid #art #cave fish #cave lobster

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troglobiteme · 6 months

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Source: Smithsonian Magazine

#notice his Teeth #the gollum snakehead #fish #cave fish #cave #cave aesthetic #photography

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mg549 · 4 months

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yok-psychic wishgiving mercreature-2010 through 2013

#ocs #original character #character sheet #character reference #digital art #mermaid #mermaids #mercreatures #cave fish #darkdreamers #the dangers #yok #my art #darkdreamers are so psychic that they spend most of their lives asleep stuck to rocks [via a sticky substance secreted thru their hair and #tails] living almost exclusively in the collective unconsciousness passively feeding on energy while theyre awake in the psychic realm #she wakes up only briefly to answer some of coy's questions then shows up again a few years later seemingly working for jo #dreambender's machinations often seem mysterious and incomprehensible to non-psychic domain mers #she's playing 4d chess at all times and is also 58

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twotriickhoofbea2t · 11 months

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yeah im comin in a bit late with these, it's getting hotter out, sue me.

#mermay #mermaid #cave fish

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melancholicwriteaholic · 1 year

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Deep cave fish are so precious.

They don’t have a sense of cold nor fear of the dark (nor even know about the concept of light). They don’t know that where they live is a literal nightmare that make creatures fifty times their size (me) shiver at the thought. They just chill and live in those underwater caves.

So badass

#fish #nature #so cool #cave fish

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ewelshiestudio · 1 year

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I did fauntober this year instead of Inktober. Posting a little late but oh well. This is 1-10. I'm torn between the fern playing the fiddle and the babirusa pig as my favorites.

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imagecurator · 3 months

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Cave fish, Alabama, USA

#flickr #photography #fish #cave fish #typhlichthys subterraneus #united states #alabama

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feather-bone · 7 months

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it is my honor to introduce you to the waterfall climbing cave fish, a rare species of stygofauna (subterranean river-dwelling creature) from Thailand. A unique limb structure allows it to cling to rock and navigate flowing water.

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[ID: an illustration of a pink and white eyeless fish with four wing-like fins positioned at the sides of its body. it is facing to the left on a textured blue background. drawn around it, there is yellow and orange text reading "waterfall-climbing cave fish". following the drawing is a video of someone describing the cave fish accompanied by photos. end.]

#cave fish #fish #fishes #icthyology #animals #i just love how enthusiastic the speaker in the video is #Youtube

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waaneco · 1 month

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