#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑎 𝑧𝑖𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 and #𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑎 𝑦𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑔, two new species of cave-dwelling #loaches from #Guizhou Province, Southwest #China. #Loach #CaveFish #CaveFishes #Nemacheilidae
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑔, a new species of #troglobitic #cyprinid is described from a #subterranean tributary of the upper #Yangtze Basin in #GuiyangCity, Guizhou Province, China. #CaveFish #CaveFishes
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#NewSpeciesAlert - A New Species of the Blind Cave #Loach Genus #𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑐𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑠 (Cypriniformes: #Cobitidae), 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑐𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠 sp. nov., from #Guangxi, China. #CaveFish #CaveFishes
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#NewSpeciesAlert - Four new hypogean species of the genus #𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑎 (Osteichthyes, Cypriniformes, #Nemacheilidae) from Guizhou Province, Southwest #China, based on molecular and morphological data. #Cavefish #Cavefishes #Loaches
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New paper - Evolution in the dark: Unexpected genetic diversity and morphological stasis in the blind, aquifer-dwelling #catfish #𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠.
#cavefish #cavefishes #catfishes #Kerala #India
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑢𝑠 (Cypriniformes, #Cyprinidae), a new species of #microphthalmic #hypogean fish from Guizhou, Southwest China. #CaveFish #CaveFishes
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Great article on #cavefish evolution published by
@CellPressNews. White, fat and blind — Economy and evolution in caves. #Cavefishes

#Subterranean Fishes of the World is an excellent resource on #cavefishes with an always-up-to-date checklist of the cave and groundwater #fishes of the world and detailed species accounts.
📷 𝑃ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑧𝑧𝑖𝑖
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#NewSpeciesAlert 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑡𝑢𝑖, a new cave loach from Central #Vietnam (Teleostei: #Nemacheilidae). #CaveFish #CaveFishes #Loach #Loaches
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A newly published book on the #cavefishes of the genus 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 is available now. #Fishes of the Genus 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 (Cypriniformes: #Cyprinidae) in China: #Systematics, #Biology, #Biogeography and Cave Adaptation