Hyaline fish

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Hyaline fish
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Cyprininae
Genus: Sinocyclocheilus
Species:
S. hyalinus
Binomial name
Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus

The hyaline fish (Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. This threatened species is found only in Yunnan in China. Like many other cavefish, it lacks scales, pigmentation and external eyes. [2] The first recorded description of an obligate cavefish involved this species, when mentioned in 1540 in the travel notes of Yingjing Xie, a local governor of Guangxi. [3]

Sources

  1. ↑ Zhao, Y.; Du, L.; Zhou, J. (2024). "Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2024 e.T20253A252573431. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T20253A252573431.en . Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus". FishBase . April 2017 version.
  3. ↑ Ma, L. and Y.-H. Zhao (2012). "Cavefish of China". In White, W.B. and D.C. Cuvier (eds.). Encyclopedia of Caves. Elsevier. pp. 107–125. ISBN   978-0-12-383832-2.


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