Error message
Unable to fetch location details at this time.
Mexican Blind Brotula
Ogilbia pearsei
20.212, -87.466
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
Comments (9)