Translucent Golden-line Barbel（Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus）
Habitat: resides in underground Karst caves or environment without
light at all for all its life.
Feeding habits: catch planktons or aquatic insects in water etc.
Features: it has no eyes. Its body exposes to outside and it has no
scales. Its body is transparent and people can see its inner organs from outside. Its
cirrus is short and fine. On its head and back, there is a strange apophysis, which is a
special sensor for translucent golden-line barbell to sense its cave environment; the
apophysis is also a special organ for it to avoid barriers, to seek for food, to seek for
spouse and to produce offspring.
Category: Pisces, Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae, Cybiinae
Distribution: it's only found in the underground river in Luxi county of
Yunnan.
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