Hyaline fish
| Hyaline fish | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Barbinae |
| Genus: | Sinocyclocheilus |
| Species: | S. hyalinus
|
| Binomial name | |
| Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus Y. R. Chen & J. X. Yang, 1993
| |
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
- ^ Kottelat, M. 1996. Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2017). "Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus" in FishBase. April 2017 version.
- ^ Ma, L.; and Y.-H. Zhao (2012). Cavefish of China. Pp. 107—125 in: White, W.B.; and D.C. Cuvier, editors. Encyclopedia of Caves. Elsevier. ISBN 9780123838322