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A new blind cyprinid fish from Iraq
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Banister, Keith Edward Bunni, M. K. |
| Copyright Year | 1980 |
| Abstract | collector in the Natural History Research Centre, University of Baghdad, visited a sink-hole at the Sheik Hadid shrine near Haditha to collect some specimens of Typhlogarra. The significance of this visit is that it revealed two species of cavernicolous cyprinids, Typhlogarra and the new species which we have pleasure in naming after Basim Al-Azzawi. Recently, Greenwood (1976) described a blind, depigmented loach, Noemacheilus smithi, which shares its subterranean waters in the Zagros mountains with Iranocypris typhlops. Here was the first Asiatic cave system known to support two fully cave-adapted species. The rarity of this event was emphasized by Greenwood (1976) who thought that the Zagros mountain situation was paralleled only by that in the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. To that very short list we can add only the poorly known Yardee Creek Wells, Northwest Australia where the synbranchid Anommatophasma candidum Mees ( = Ophisternon candidumfide Rosen & Greenwood 1976) and the goby Milyeringia veritas Whitley occur (Mees 1962), and now the waters below Haditha. |
| Starting Page | 151 |
| Ending Page | 158 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 38 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ia800203.us.archive.org/31/items/biostor-115/biostor-115.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
