A blind fish is a fish without functional eyes.[1] Most blind fish species are found in dark habitats such as the deep ocean, deep river channels and underground.[2]

Blind fish species

Agnathans

Cartilaginous fishes

Bony fishes

Astyanax jordani
Amblyopsis sp.
Bufoceratias wedli
Cryptopsaras couesii
Aphyonus gelatinosus
Sciadonus cryptophthalmus
Typhlonus nasus
Lethops connectens
Typhleotris madagascariensis
Trypauchen vagina
Ditropichthys storeri

See also

References

  1. ^ "How This Cave-Dwelling Fish Lost Its Eyes to Evolution". National Geographic. 2015-09-11. Archived from the original on September 14, 2015. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  2. ^ Romero, Aldemaro, ed. (2001), The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-1402000768

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