Sentence examples for cave fish from inspiring English sources

In the Wet Cave, stalagmites and stalactites help create a habitat for bats and giant salamanders, cave fish and crayfish.

See cave fish.

The blind cave fish Astyanax mexicanus is adapted to its subterranean environment in other ways.

And I've trained myself not to characterize my skin as "cave fish white" but the more glamorous-sounding "porcelain".

Cave fish, any of the pale, blind, cave-dwelling fishes of the genera Amblyopsis and Typhlichthys, family Amblyopsidae.

Yet, the question of why the blind cave fish lost its eyes and a large part of its brain remains unresolved.

The brains of surface-dwelling fish were also roughly 30% larger than those of the blind cave fish, while those of the hybrids were of intermediate size.

In the cave habitat, a colony of bats lives behind plexiglass, and models portray the lives of such other cave dwellers as crayfish, salamanders and blind cave fish.

Overall, the brain accounts for some 23% of the resting metabolic rate in the surface-dwellers, compared to just 10% in the blind cave fish.

But blind cave fish are ideal for testing the idea, because their ancestors – the surface-dwelling form – still inhabit the rivers of northeastern Mexico and Texas.

Sadoglu crossed cave fish with surface fish.