It's a wonderful hypogean life: A guide to the troglomorphic fishes of the world

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 62, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 13-41

  Romero, Aldemaro ^a   Paulson, Kelly M ^a  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Convergent evolution; Geographical distribution; Hypogean fishes; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0034763656     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011844404235     Document Type: Article

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2. Revisión del género Anoptichthys con descripción de una especie nueva (Pisc., Characidae)
3. Descripción de Anoptichthys hubbsi caracínido ciego de la cueva de los Sabinos, S.L.P.
4. Estudio comparativo de dos poblaciones, una hipogea y otra epigea de Trichomycterus sp. (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae)
5. The genus Heptapterus (Teleostei, Pimelodidae) in southern Brazil and Uruguay with the description of a new species
6. Contribution a l'etude du Typhleotris madagascariensis, poisson aveugle, cavernicole, du Sud-Ouest de Madagascar
7. Une nouvelle espèce de poisson aveugle de Madagascar: Typhleotris pauliani n. sp.
8. Evolutionary genetics of cave-dwelling fishes of the genus Astyanax
9. Two new synbranchid fishes, Monopterus roseni from Peninsular India and M. desilvai from Sri Lanka
10. Descriptions of new species of fishes collected in Texas, New Mexico and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U.S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas by Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, U.S.A.
11. Two new species of Garra (Teleostei-Cyprinidae) from the Arabian peninsula
12. Glossogobius ankaranensis, a new species of blind cave goby from Madagascar (Pisces: Gobioidei: Gobiidae)
13. Omani blind cave fish
14. A new blind cyprinid fish from Iraq
15. Specific chemical recognition in Phreatichthys andruzzii (Pisces, Cyprinidae)
16. Aggressive behaviour in the anophthalmic phreatic fish Uegitglanis zammaranoi Gianferrari (Claridae, Siluriformes)
17. Caecogobius, cryptophthalmus n. gen. n. sp. (Gobiidae Gobiinae), the first stygobic fish from Philippines
18. Influence of chemical signals on the topographic orientation of the cave fish Caecobarbus geertsi - Boulenger (Pisces, Cyprinidae)
19. Locomotory responses of the cave cyprinid Phreatichthys andruzzii to chemical signals from con-specifics and related species: New findings
20. Preliminary observations on the epidermis of Uegitglanis zammaranoi Gianferrari (Claridae: Siluriformes)
21. Morphology and structure of the olfactory organ in Uegitglanis zammaranoi Gianferrari (Claridae, Siluriformes), anophthalmic phreatic fish from Somalia
22. Annual modulation of diel motor activity rhythm of the dusk active loach Nemacheils evezardi (Day). A correlation between day length and circadian parameters
23. Comparative aspects of reproductive phase dependent adjustments in behavioural circadian rhythms of epigean and hypogean fish
24. A new blind catfish from Brazil
25. Catalogue of freshwater and marine fishes of Alabama
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28. Descriptive ecology of La Cueva Chica, with especial reference to the blind fish, Anoptichthys
29. Correlations between structural eye defects and behavior in the Mexican blind characin
30. A new blind characid fish from southeaster Brazil
31. Threatened fishes of the world: Clarias cavernicola Trewavas, 1936 (Clariidae)
32. Iranocypris typhlops, the first true cave fish from Asia
33. Troglomorphic sculpins of the Cottus carolinae species group in Perry County, Missouri: Distribution, external morphology, and conservation status review
34. Astroblepus riberae, una nueva especie de siluriforme cavernícola del Peru (Osteichthyes: Astroblepidae)
35. Descripcion del primer bagre anoftalmo y depigmentado encontrado en aguas mexicanas (Pisc., Ameiur.)
36. Estudo de uma populacao hipogea de Trichomycterus (Ostariophysi, Siluroidei, Trichomucteridae) da Gruta de Olhos d'Agua, MG
37. Specialisation anatomique de l'appareil de Weber d'Astroblepus pholeter, silure cavernicole microphtalme de la Republique de l'Equateur
38. A new blind cyprinid fish from Yunnan, China with a reference to the evolution of its characters
39. One new species of blind cavefish from Guangxi with comments on its phylogenetic status (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae: Barbinae)
40. A new blind cave loach of Paracobitis with comments on its characters evolution
41. A new blind loach of Triplophysa from Yunnan Stone Forest with comments on its phylogenetic relationship [sic]
42. A new fish of the genus Sinocyclocheilus from Yunnan with comments on its characteristic adaptation (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
43. A new blind cobitid fish (Pisces, Cypriniformes) from subterranean waters in Yunnan, China
44. A new genus and species of blind cyprinid fish from China with special reference to its relationships
45. Brotulidae: Typhliasina pearsei
46. Synbranchidae: Ophisternon infernale
47. Threatened fishes of the world: Iranocypris typhlops Bruun & Kaiser, 1944 (Cyprinidae)
48. Astroblepus pholeter, a new species of cave-dwelling catfish from eastern Ecuador
49. A new ophidioid fish (genus Lucifuga) from a limestone sink, New Providence Island, Bahamas
50. Problemas nomenclaturales de las formas mexicanas del género Astyanax (Pisces: Characidae)
51. Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni, a new genus and species of subterranean fish from Alabama
52. Sur les poissons du sous-genre Hydrocyon, sur deux nouvelles espèces de Chalceus, sur trois nouvelles espèces du serrasalmes, et sur l'Argentina glossodonta de Forskahl, qui est l'Albula gonorhynchus de Bloch
53. Un nouveau poisson cavernicole
54. Monograph of Indian Cyprinidae, Part IV
55. Nouvelles espèces de poissons
56. Phylogenetic relationships of neotropical Siluriformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi): Historical overview and synthesis of hypotheses
57. Lucifuga teresinarum sp. n., nueva especie cubana de peces troglobios (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae)
58. Un nuovo genere di ciprinide somalo delle acque di pozzo
59. Pesci recolti in Somalia nel 1924, della spedizione Stefanini e Puccini
60. Etude des poissons récoltés dans la grotte de Umayalanta (Bolivie), Trichomycterus chaberti sp. n.
61. A new species of Monoptereus from South India
62. The Amblyopsidae and eyes of blind fishes
63. On the Amblyopsidae
64. A case of convergence
65. Divergence and convergence in fishes
66. The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species, and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands
67. Trogloglanis pattersoni a new blind fish from San Antonio, Texas
68. Rudiments of an ability for time measuremens in cavernicole fish Anoptichthys jordani Hubbs & Innes (Pisces: Characidae)
69. Light sensitivity experiments and morphology studies of the blind phreatic fish Phreatichthys andruzzii Vinciguerra from Somalia
70. Morphology and response to light of Uegitglanis zammaranoi Gianferrari, anophthalmic phreatic fish from Somalia
71. Morphology and response to light of Barbopsis devecchii di Caporiacco (Cyprinidae), microphthalmic phreatic fish from Somalia
72. Researches on the phreatobic fishes of Somalia: Achievements and prospects
73. Oxygen consumption in hypogean and epigean cyprinids (Pisces)
74. A new blind cave fish population of genus Astyanax: Geography, morphology and behavior
75. Fishes from Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Oman
76. Fauna troglobia de Venezuela: Sinopsis, biología, ambiente, distribución y evolución
77. Fauna troglobia de Venezuela: Sinopsis, biología, ambiente, distribución y evolución
78. Sur l'existence des vestiges oculaires chez Caecobarbus geertsi
79. Uegitglanis zammaranoi un nuovo siluride cieco africano (Uegitglanis zammaranoi, a new African cave silurid)
80. Un nuovo ciprinide Somalo (Barbopsis Stefaninii Gianf.)
81. I pesci cavernicoli ciechi africani
82. Ichthyological notes
83. Nova zoologica aus der Amazonas-Region
84. A cavernicolous form of the poeciliid fish Poecilia sphenops from Tabasco, Mexico
85. Responses to light in two blind cave fishes (Amblyopsis spelaea and Typhlichthys subterraneus) (Pisces: Amblyopsidae)
86. A new subspecies of cave-dwelling pimelodid catfish, Rhamdia laticauda typhla from Belize, Central America
87. A new and eyeless cobitid fish (Pisces, Cypriniformes) from the Zagros Mountains, Iran
88. Descriptions of some new species of fishes and miscellaneous notes on others obtained during the expedition of the Carnegie Museum to central South America
89. Mexican blindcats genus Prietella (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae): An overview of recent explorations
90. Ecology, variation and adaptation of the blind African cave fish Caecobarbus geerstsii Blgr
91. La geographie et l'ecologie des grottes du Bas-Congoles habitats de Caecobarbus geertsi Blgr
92. Fish of the Siju Cave, Garo Hills, Assam
93. XVII. Fishes of the Yucatan Peninsula
94. Fishes from the caves of Yucatan
95. Isolating mechanisms in the speciation of fishes
96. Blind catfishes from artesian waters of Texas
97. The first known blind fish of the family Characidae: A new genus from Mexico
98. Mémoire sur une nouvelle espèce de pimelode, jetée par les volcans du Royaume de Quito
99. The distribution of Australian cave fishes
100. Milyeringa veritas (Eleotridae), a remarkably versatile cave fish from the arid tropics of northwestern Australia
101. Food of the blind cave fishes of northwestern Australia
102. Archialine fauna of the Galapagos islands
103. Anchialine cave biology
104. A comparative study of group density in cave and epigean fishes
105. Karyotypic similarities between the Mexican and blind tetras
106. Two species of cavefishes from northern Thailand in the genera Nemacheilus and Homaloptera (Osteichthyes: Homalopteridae)
107. New species and populations of cave nemacheilines in south and south-east Asia (Osteichthyes, Balitoridae)
108. Homaloptera yuwonoi, a new species of hillstream loach from Borneo, with a new generic name for H. thamicola (Teleostei, Balitoridae)
109. Troglocyclocheilus khammouanensis, a new genus and species of cave fish from the Khammouan karst, Laos (Teleostei, Cyprinidae)
110. Nemacheilus troglocataractus, a new blind cavefish from Thailand. (Osteichthyes, Balitoridae)
111. On a new fish of the genus Sincyclocheilus from Guangxi, China (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae: Barbinae)
112. A new blind barbid fish (Pisces, Cyprinidae) from subterranean water in Guangxi, China
113. Astyanax armandoi, n. sp. from Chiapas, Mexico (Pisces, Ostariophysi: Characidae) with a comparison to the nominal species A. aeneus and A. mexicanus
114. Studies of the brain, sense organs and light sensitivity of a blind cave fish (Typhlogarra widdowsoni) from Iraq
115. The subterranean freshwater fauna of Yardie Creek Station, North West Cape, Western Australia
116. On a remarkable blind siluroid fish of the family Clariidae from Kerala (India)
117. Morphological studies on the oocytes of the blind catfish Horaglanis krishnai Menon
118. The anatomy and histology of the alimentary tract of the blind catfish Horaglanis krishnai
119. Rhamdia reddelli, new species, the first blind pimelodid catfish from middle America, with a key to the Mexican species
120. Uma novidade ichthyologica
121. A study of the subterranean species of Lucifuga from Cuba, with the description of Lucifuga simile sp. n. (Pisces, Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae)
122. The loaches of Iran and adjacent regions with description of six new species (Cobitoidea)
123. A study of a subterranean population of Trichomycterus guianense (Eigenmann, 1909) from Venezuela (Pisces, Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae)
124. Pterocryptis buccata, a new species of catfish from western Thailand (Teleostei: Siluridae) with epigean and hypogean populations
125. A new blind catfish from Trinidad, with a list of the blind cave-fishes
126. Noemacheilus (Troglocobitis) starostini sp. n. (Osteichthyes, Cobitidae) a new blind fish from subterranean waters of Kugitangtau (Turkmenia)
127. A review of morphological and behavioural changes in the cave molly, Poecilia mexicana, from Tabasco, Mexico
128. L'Eilichthys microphthalmus Pellegrin, poisson cavernicole de la Somalie Italienne
129. Genetic variation in a cave-dwelling Venezuelan catfish
130. Ancistrus galani n. sp. (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with comments on biospeleological explorations in western Venezuela
131. Problemes genetiques de l'evolution regressive des cavernicoles
132. Un poisson cavernicole aveugle des eaux douces de Madagascar: Typhleotris madagascariensis gen. et sp. nov. C.R. Hebd
133. Über die vererbung des schreckreaktion bei Astyanax (Characidae, Pisces)
134. Ichthyo-fauna of Garo Hills, Meghalaya (India)
135. Note sur une novelle station d'un poisson cavernicole aveugle du plateau calcaire Mahafaly
136. Un poisson aveugle nouveau de la famille des Brotulidae provenant des îles Galapagos
137. Nontroglobitic fishes in Bruffey-Hills Creek Cave, West Virginia, and other caves worldwide
138. Cave adaptation in amblyopsid fishes
139. The conservation status of hypogean fishes
140. The blind fishes of the Mammoth Cave and their allies
141. Description des poissons
142. A revision of the cyprinodont fishes of the subfamily Poeciliinae
143. The fishes of the gobiid genus Luciogobius Gill
144. Ancistrus cryptophthalmus sp. n., a blind mailed catfish from the Tocantins River basin, Brazil (Pisces, Siluriformes, Loricariidae)
145. Breves comentarios sobre un pez cavernicola de Bolivia (Pygidium chaberti Durand, 1968)
146. Barbus speleops new species, a blind cavefish from Tham Phu Khieo, Mekong Basin, Thailand
147. Introgressive hybridization in a population of Astyanax fasciatus (Pisces: Characidae) at La Cueva Chica
148. Behavior in an 'intermediate' population of the subterranean-dwelling characid Astyanax fasciatus
149. Ontogenetic change in phototactic responses of surface and cave populations of Astyanax fasciatus (Pisces: Characidae)
150. Observaciones preliminares sobre la conducta en individuos cavernícolas de Trichomycterus conradi (Pisces: Trichomycteridae)
151. Threatened fishes of the world: Amblyopsis rosae (Eigenmann, 1842) (Amblyopsidae)
152. Threatened fishes of the world: Typhlichthys subterraneus (Girard, 1860) (Amblyopsidae)
153. Threatened fishes of the world: Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni Cooper and Kuehne, 1974 (Amblyopsidae)
154. Scientists prefer them blind: The history of hypogean fish research
155. Threatened fishes of the world: Amblyopsis spelaea De Kay, 1842 (Amblyopsidae)
156. The unsung heroes of speleology
157. In search of the elusive 'eyeless' cave fish Trinidad, W.I.
158. Threatened fishes of the world: Stygichthys typhlops Brittan & Böhlke, 1965 (Characidae)
159. Humboldt's alleged cave fish from Ecuador
160. Threatened fishes of the world: Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945 (Eleotridae)
161. Threatened fishes of the world: Ophisternon candidum (Mees 1962) (Synbranchidae)
162. A new species of blind armoured catfish, genus Ancistrus, from caves of Bodoquena region, Mato Grosso do Sul, southwestern Brazil (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Ancistrinae)
163. Mendelian inheritance in the hybrids between the Mexican blind cave fishes and their overground ancestor
164. Genetic variability and differentiation of hypogean cyprinid fishes from Somalia
165. Vergleichende untersuchungen an den hautsinnesorganen ober - Und unterirdisch lebender Astyanax-Formen, ein beitrag zur evolution der cavernicolen
166. Studies on the genetics of feeding behaviour in the cave fish Astyanax mexicanus f. Anoptichthys. An example of apparent monofactorial inheritance by polygenes
167. A further contribution to the ichthyology of Venezuela
168. Amphipnous indicus, a new synbranchoid eel from India, with a redefinition of the genus and a synopsis to the species of Amphipnous Müller
169. Studies on the ichthyofauna of Nasik District, Maharashtra, India
170. Speleobiological investigations in the Colombian Andes
171. A blind cave loach from southwestern Asia, Noemacheilus starostini Parin
172. Beiträge zur kenntniss der sciaenoiden brasiliens und der cyprinodonten mejicos
173. Recherches experimentales sur la photosensibilité du poisson aveugle Caecobarbus geertsii Blgr
174. Effects de la substance d'alarme sur le comportament des poissons cavernicoles Anoptichthys jordani (Characidae) et Caecobarbus geeretsi (Cyprinidae)
175. Gobiidae of Japan
176. Die hohleen-vertebraten aus Japan und seinen nachbarschaften
177. The agonistic behaviour of Pimelodella kronei, a troglobitic catfish from southeastern Brazil (Siluriformes, Pimelodidade)
178. Food and reproduction of Trichomycterus itacarambiensis, cave catfish from south-eastern Brazil
179. Population ecology of Trichomycterus itacarambiensis, a cave catfish from eastern Brazil (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae)
180. Synopsis of Brazilian troglomorphic fishes
181. Ecology of subterranean fishes: An overview
182. Habitat and population data of troglobitic armoured cave catfishes, Ancistrus cryptophthalmus Reis, 1987, from central Brazil (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
183. A new cave species of Trichomycterus from eastern Brazil (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae)
184. The behavior of Ancistrus cryptophthalmus, an armoured blind catfish from caves of central Brazil, with notes on synopic Trichomycterus sp. (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Trichomycteridae)
185. Dr. Karl Jordan's expedition to South-West Africa and Angola: The fresh-water fishes
186. A blind fish from Iraq, related to Garra
187. Eigenmannia vicentespelaea, a new species of cave dwelling electrogenic neotropical fish (Ostariophisi: Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae)
188. The fauna of the insular lava caves in west Japan. I. General account
189. Histoire naturelle des poissons, Tome dix-huitième, suite du livre dix-huitième, cyprinoïdes
190. Descrizione di un ciprinide cieco proveniente dalla Somalia Italiana
191. New species of troglobitic catfish of the genus Prietella (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae) from northeastern México
192. Fish and amphibia
193. Rhamdia macuspanensis: A new species of troglobitic pimelodid catfish (Siluriformes; Pimelodidae) from a cave in Tabasco, Mexico
194. New sharks and fishes from Western Australia, Part 2
195. A naturalist at north-west Cape
196. New fish names and records
197. Beitrage zur degeneration des auges bei cavernicolen, genzahl und manifestationsart
198. Über das phylogenetische Alter von Hohlentieren. Untersuchungen über die cavernicole susswasserfauna Yucatans
199. A new species of Rhamdia (Pisces: Pimelodidae) from a cave in the Sierra de Zongolica (Veracruz, Mexico)
200. Conservation and ecology of a new blind fish Glossogobius ankaranensis from the Ankarana caves, Masagascar
201. Nemacheilinae (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae)
202. Protocobitis typhlops, a new genus and species of cave loach from China (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae)
203. A new blind Cobitidae fish from the subterranean water in Xiangxi, China
204. On the ecological adaptation and geographical distribution of the barbine fish Varicorhinus (Scaphestes) macrolepis
205. Description of a new species of the genus Sinocyclocheilus from China (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
206. Fishes of the genus Triplophysa (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) in the Yuanjiang (upper Red River) basin of Yunnan, China, with description of a new species