The crossed-fork back golden-line fish (''Sinocyclocheilus furcodorsalis'') is a species of blind
cave fish
Cavefish or cave fish is a generic term for fresh and brackish water fish adapted to life in caves and other underground habitats. Related terms are subterranean fish, troglomorphic fish, troglobitic fish, stygobitic fish, phreatic fish and hypog ...
in the family
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest verte ...
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It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the
Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...
province in southern China, and only known from an underground stream in
Tian'e County
Tian'e (; za, Denhngoz Yen) is a county of northwestern Guangxi, China, located on the upper reaches of the Hongshui River and bordering Guizhou province to the northwest. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hechi.
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Description
''Sinocyclocheilus furcodorsalis'' grow to standard length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology.
Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...
. They are eyeless. The body is depigmented, semi-transparent and whitish in colour.[
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References
Sinocyclocheilus
Cave fish
Endemic fauna of Guangxi
Freshwater fish of China
Fish described in 1997
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