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Mexican Blind Brotula

Ogilbia pearsei

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Field Notes

Description:

Photo take in a underground river system or Cenotes in the Yucatan Peninsula. This is a freshwater extremophile fish compleate blind no eyes, live under 65°F in a absolutely dark and cold atmosphere, is very rare to fine one, it lives alone or a least we have never see two or more together.
it has develop incredible sences to survive.Moves very slow to preserve energy, we think it feeds whit little shrimps and some other living organism from the cave that it can detected by the changes of density in the water.

Habitat:

Native of México found in underground river systems in the Yucatan Peninsula also spotted in some caves in the north of México.

Notes:

Is also consider by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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Comments (9)

Thanks Palaimon you are very welcome any time you come to México we do some cave dives.
Amazing! Would like to do cavediving also but here we have no caves ;-)
Thanks Palaimon Well it was a long dive maybe around 400 ft from the entrance deep inside the cave.
Nice spotting! How deep in the cave did you find this fish?
Hola Marta este es de la cueva de Gran Cenote. Viste una wow e echo cientos de buceos de cuevas y solo lo e vistio dos veces.
¿En que cenote hiciste la foto? yo estuve en Dos Ojos, me gusto mucho. Vi tambien gambitas ciegas :-)

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