Hyaline fish

Hyaline fish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
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. 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.

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.