Mexican tetra, the Glossary
The Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus), also known as the blind cave fish, blind cave characin or the blind cave tetra, is a freshwater fish in the Characidae family (tetras and relatives) of the order Characiformes.[1]
Table of Contents
110 relations: Academic Press, Adaptation, Albinism, Algae, Animal echolocation, Annelid, Annual Review of Genetics, Antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis, Aquarist, Aquarium, Arachnid, Arthropod, Astyanax aeneus, Astyanax jordani, Balsas River, Bat, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, BioScience, Blind fish, BMC Biology, BMC Ecology and Evolution, Brine shrimp, Cave, Cavefish, Cetacea, Characidae, Characiformes, Charles Darwin, Convergent evolution, Crustacean, Current Biology, Cystathionine beta synthase, Daphnia, Devolution (biology), DGH, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Evolution, Evolution & Development, Eye, Family (biology), Filippo De Filippi, Fish, Fish measurement, Fish scale, Fly, Fresh water, Genetic divergence, Genetic drift, Genus, Guerrero, ... Expand index (60 more) »
- Astyanax (fish)
- Blind animals
- Taxa named by Filippo De Filippi
- Tetras
Academic Press
Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941.
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Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
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Albinism
Albinism is the congenital absence of melanin in an animal or plant resulting in white hair, feathers, scales and skin and reddish pink or blue eyes.
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Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
Animal echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is a biological active sonar used by several animal groups, both in the air and underwater.
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Annelid
The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, "little ring"), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.
Annual Review of Genetics
The Annual Review of Genetics is an annual peer-reviewed scientific review journal published by Annual Reviews.
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Antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis
The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis was first proposed in a 1952 paper on the evolutionary theory of ageing by Peter Medawar and developed further in a landmark paper by George C. Williams in 1957.
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Aquarist
An aquarist is a person who manages aquariums, either professionally or as a hobby.
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Aquarium
An aquarium (aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed.
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Arachnid
Arachnids are arthropods in the class Arachnida of the subphylum Chelicerata.
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Arthropod
Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.
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Astyanax aeneus
Astyanax aeneus, the banded tetra, is a small species of fish native to southern Central America and northern South America. Mexican tetra and Astyanax aeneus are astyanax (fish) and freshwater fish of Mexico.
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Astyanax jordani
Astyanax jordani is a freshwater fish of the characin family (family Characidae) of order Characiformes, native to Mexico. Mexican tetra and Astyanax jordani are astyanax (fish), cave fish, freshwater fish of Mexico and tetras.
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Balsas River
The Balsas River (Spanish Río Balsas, also locally known as the Mezcala River, or Atoyac River) is a major river of south-central Mexico.
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Bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society is a direct descendant of the oldest biological journal in the world, the Transactions of the Linnean Society.
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BioScience
BioScience is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
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Blind fish
A blind fish is a fish without functional eyes. Mexican tetra and blind fish are blind animals.
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BMC Biology
BMC Biology is an online open access scientific journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed research in all fields of biology, together with opinion and comment articles.
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BMC Ecology and Evolution
BMC Ecology and Evolution (since January 2021), previously BMC Evolutionary Biology (2001–2020), is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all fields of evolutionary biology, including phylogenetics and palaeontology.
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Brine shrimp
Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans also known as brine shrimp or sea monkeys.
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Cave
A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.
Cavefish
Cavefish or cave fish is a generic term for fresh and brackish water fish adapted to life in caves and other underground habitats. Mexican tetra and Cavefish are cave fish.
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Cetacea
Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Characidae
Characidae, the characids or characins, is a family of freshwater subtropical and tropical fish belonging to the order Characiformes.
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Characiformes
Characiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising the characins and their allies.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
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Current Biology
Current Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all areas of biology, especially molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
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Cystathionine beta synthase
Cystathionine-β-synthase, also known as CBS, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CBS gene.
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Daphnia
Daphnia is a genus of small planktonic crustaceans, in length.
Devolution (biology)
Devolution, de-evolution, or backward evolution (not to be confused with dysgenics) is the notion that species can revert to supposedly more primitive forms over time.
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DGH
Degrees of general hardness (dGH or °GH) is a unit of water hardness, specifically of general hardness.
Environmental Biology of Fishes
Environmental Biology of Fishes is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on all aspects of fish and fish-related biology, and the links to their environment.
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Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Evolution & Development
Evolution & Development is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing material at the interface of evolutionary and developmental biology.
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Eye
An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Filippo De Filippi
Filippo De Filippi (20 April 1814 – 9 February 1867) was an Italian doctor, traveler and zoologist.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Fish measurement
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology.
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Fish scale
A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish.
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Fly
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".
Fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
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Genetic divergence
Genetic divergence is the process in which two or more populations of an ancestral species accumulate independent genetic changes (mutations) through time, often leading to reproductive isolation and continued mutation even after the populations have become reproductively isolated for some period of time, as there is not any genetic exchange anymore.
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Genetic drift
Genetic drift, also known as random genetic drift, allelic drift or the Wright effect, refers to random fluctuations in the frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in a population.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Guerrero
Guerrero, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero (Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero), is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Hard water
Hard water is water that has a high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water").
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Heredity (journal)
Heredity is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio.
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Hsp90
Hsp90 (heat shock protein 90) is a chaperone protein that assists other proteins to fold properly, stabilizes proteins against heat stress, and aids in protein degradation.
Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
Integrative and Comparative Biology
Integrative and Comparative Biology is the scientific journal for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (formerly the American Society of Zoologists).
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Journal of Experimental Zoology
Journal of Experimental Zoology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of zoology established in 1904.
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Journal of Heredity
The Journal of Heredity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal concerned with heredity in a biological sense, covering all aspects of genetics.
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Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.
Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
Lateral line
The lateral line, also called the lateral line organ (LLO), is a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.
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Lineage (evolution)
An evolutionary lineage is a temporal series of populations, organisms, cells, or genes connected by a continuous line of descent from ancestor to descendant.
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List of freshwater aquarium fish species
A vast number of freshwater species have successfully adapted to live in aquariums.
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List of troglobites
A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an animal species, or population of a species, strictly bound to underground habitats, such as caves.
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Mexican Plateau
The Central Mexican Plateau, also known as the Mexican Altiplano (Altiplano mexicano), is a large arid-to-semiarid plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Model organism
A model organism (often shortened to model) is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics.
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Mosquito
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species.
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Mysida
Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida.
Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
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Nearctic realm
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
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Nueces River
The Nueces River (Río Nueces) is a river in the U.S. state of Texas, about long.
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Omnivore
An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.
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On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life)The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
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Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Parallel evolution
Parallel evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response to similar evolutionary pressure.
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Paraphyly
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.
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Pecos River
The Pecos River (Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande.
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PH
In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").
Phenotype
In genetics, the phenotype is the set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism.
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Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.
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Polymorphism (biology)
In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.
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Polyphyly
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor.
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Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
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Psalidodon fasciatus
Psalidodon fasciatus, commonly known as the banded astyanax, is a species of fish widespread in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina. Mexican tetra and Psalidodon fasciatus are freshwater fish of Mexico.
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Rejection of evolution by religious groups
Recurring cultural, political, and theological rejection of evolution by religious groups exists regarding the origins of the Earth, of humanity, and of other life.
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Rio Grande
The Rio Grande in the United States or the Río Bravo (del Norte) in Mexico, also known as P’osoge in Tewa and Tó Ba’áadi in Navajo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.
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San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí, officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí (Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí), is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Science Advances
Science Advances is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open-access scientific journal established in early 2015 and published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Selective breeding
Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
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Sense of smell
The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived.
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Shoaling and schooling
In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology is organized to integrate the many fields of specialization which occur in the broad field of biology.
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is a scientific and academic organization founded in 1982 to support academic research in the field of molecular evolution.
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Stygichthys
Stygichthys typhlops, the blind tetra or Brazilian blind characid, is a species of fish in the family Characidae and the only member of the genus Stygichthys. Mexican tetra and Stygichthys are blind animals and cave fish.
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Subterranean river
A subterranean river (also known as an underground river) is a river or watercourse that runs wholly or partly beneath the ground, one where the riverbed does not represent the surface of the Earth.
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Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
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Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Taste bud
Taste buds are clusters of taste receptor cells, which are also known as gustatory cells.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
Troglomorphism
Troglomorphism is the morphological adaptation of an animal to living in the constant darkness of caves, characterised by features such as loss of pigment, reduced eyesight or blindness, and frequently with attenuated bodies or appendages.
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Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).
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Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment.
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Water beetle
A water beetle is a generalized name for any beetle that is adapted to living in water at any point in its life cycle.
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See also
Astyanax (fish)
- Astyanax (fish)
- Astyanax abramis
- Astyanax acatlanensis
- Astyanax aeneus
- Astyanax altior
- Astyanax altiparanae
- Astyanax anai
- Astyanax angustifrons
- Astyanax apiaka
- Astyanax aramburui
- Astyanax argentatus
- Astyanax argyrimarginatus
- Astyanax asuncionensis
- Astyanax atratoensis
- Astyanax bacalarensis
- Astyanax bagual
- Astyanax baileyi
- Astyanax belizianus
- Astyanax bimaculatus
- Astyanax biotae
- Astyanax boliviensis
- Astyanax bourgeti
- Astyanax brachypterygium
- Astyanax bransfordii
- Astyanax brevimanus
- Astyanax brevirhinus
- Astyanax caballeroi
- Astyanax caucanus
- Astyanax chaparae
- Astyanax clavitaeniatus
- Astyanax cocibolca
- Astyanax jordani
- Astyanax microschemos
- Cave tetra
- Mexican tetra
Blind animals
- Adetomyrma
- Adetomyrma aureocuprea
- Adetomyrma bressleri
- Adetomyrma caputleae
- Adetomyrma cassis
- Adetomyrma caudapinniger
- Adetomyrma cilium
- Adetomyrma clarivida
- Adetomyrma goblin
- Adetomyrma venatrix
- Aenictus ceylonicus
- Blind fish
- Blindness in animals
- Cave salamanders
- Eurycea neotenes
- Kauaʻi cave wolf spider
- Mexican tetra
- Nannospalax
- Rhaphidophoridae
- Spalax
- Stygichthys
- Talpidae
Taxa named by Filippo De Filippi
- Acanthobrama microlepis
- Alburnus doriae
- Atractus favae
- Black-breasted barbet
- Capoeta sevangi
- Eastern tubenose goby
- Haementeria
- Iranolacerta brandtii
- Italian loach
- Laudakia nupta
- Mexican tetra
- Peruvian meadowlark
- Phrynocephalus persicus
- Red-tailed wheatear
- Rufous-tailed antbird
- Sabanejewia aurata
- Smallmouth spiny eel
- Thoracocharax securis
- Transcaucasian chub
- White-headed barbet
Tetras
- Adonis tetra
- African moon tetra
- Astyanax (fish)
- Astyanax jordani
- Bleeding heart tetra
- Blue tetra
- Brycinus longipinnis
- Bucktooth tetra
- Carlastyanax
- Congo tetra
- Copella (fish)
- Dawn tetra
- Diamond tetra
- Hemigrammus erythrozonus
- Hemigrammus ulreyi
- Hyphessobrycon
- Lemon tetra
- Mexican tetra
- Mimagoniates inequalis
- Mimagoniates lateralis
- Mimagoniates microlepis
- Minor tetra
- Nematobrycon palmeri
- Paracheirodon
- Piabucus
- Piabucus melanostoma
- Psalidodon
- Rosy tetra
- Tailspot tetra
- Tetra
- Thayeria boehlkei
- Tyttocharax madeirae
- Tyttocharax metae
- Yellow-tailed African tetra
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_tetra
Also known as Astyanax fasciatus mexicanus, Astyanax hubbsi, Astyanax mexicanus, Blind Cave Fish, Blind Cave Tetra, Blind cave characin, Blind cavefish, Mexican Cave Tetra.
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