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The Cave, Spring, and Swamp Fishes of the Family Amblyopsidae of Central and Eastern United States

1957; University of Notre Dame; Volume: 58; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2422371

1938-4238

Loren P. Woods, Robert F. Inger,

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In 1842, DeKay published the first fragmentary description of the Mammoth Cave blind fish, Amblyopsis spelaea. Subsequently, Putnam (1872), Packard (1886), 'Cox (1905), and Eigenmann (1909), have reviewed the species and characteristics of the family Amblyopsidae. The brief monograph by 'Cox defined the genera, described the species, with a key for separating them, and postulated a phylogeny. Starks (1904) described and compared the skeletons of the pike, Esox, the mudminnow, Umbra, a topminnow, Fundulus, and Amblyopsis. Eigenmann began to study amblyopsids in 1886 and published a number of papers dealing particularly with the evolutionary significance of degeneration of the eye. This work was completed in 1909 with publication of a monographic treatise on all cave vertebrates of North America. Since then no one has studied the entire family. We have not attempted to compare or correlate our information with that concerning the blind cave tetra (Anopichthys), the blind catfishes, or the blind brotulids. We have limited our study and remarks to the North American cave, spring, and swamp fishes belonging to the family Amblyopsidae.