#cavefish — Public Fediverse posts
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Time for a new poll!
What does Zero want to eat?
https://cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s/ae9pkmoy5xBD95xsTy2DM3z2
#PandorasTale #PandorasTaleWiki #Cavefish #EatTheRich #ZeroAngiers -
#CaveFish Adolescence Means Sprouting Taste Buds in Weird Places
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cave-fish-adolescence-means-sprouting-taste-buds-in-weird-places/The spatiotemporal and genetic architecture of extraoral taste buds in #Astyanax cavefish https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06635-2
"In eastern #Mexico’s underground caverns, a blind #fish undergoes a peculiar adolescence: as it approaches maturity, #TasteBuds begin to sprout under its chin and on top of its head, creeping toward its back... they might be helping the fish detect bat droppings in the utterly dark #caves"
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Meet #Neolissochilus pnar, World’s Largest Cavefish https://www.sci.news/biology/neolissochilus-pnar-11638.html
The world’s largest #cave #fish from #Meghalaya, Northeast #India, is a new species, Neolissochilus pnar (#Cyprinidae, Torinae) https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/101011/
Stories of a white #cavefish from Meghalaya have been documented for 100 years. Only in the 1990s, a large, pale, cyprinid fish was observed, individuals of which were eventually photographed and collected in 2019, and made available for detailed scientific studies.