1. Contents

   Table of Contents Pages: 1 - 6

2. An Introduction to the Special Volume on the Biology of Hypogean Fishes

   • Aldemaro Romero

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 12

3. It's a Wonderful Hypogean Life: A Guide to the Troglomorphic Fishes of the World

   • Aldemaro Romero
   • Kelly M. Paulson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 41

4. Scientists Prefer them Blind: The History of Hypogean Fish Research

   • Aldemaro Romero

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 71

5. Nontroglobitic Fishes in Bruffey-Hills Creek Cave, West Virginia, and other Caves Worldwide

   • William J. Poly

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 83

6. Part 1. Anatomy, physiology and behavior

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 86

7. The Mechanosensory Lateral Line System of the Hypogean form of Astyanax Fasciatus

   • John C. Montgomery
   • Sheryl Coombs
   • Cindy F. Baker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 96

8. Metabolic Rate and Natural History of Ozark Cavefish, Amblyopsis Rosae, in Logan Cave, Arkansas

   • Ginny L. Adams
   • James E. Johnson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 105

9. Locomotory Responses of the Cave Cyprinid Phreatichthys Andruzzii Chemical Signals from Conspecifics and Related Species: New Findings

   • Roberto Berti
   • Luca Zorn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 114

10. Responses to Light in Epigean and Hypogean Populations of Gambusia Affinis (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

    • Michele Maria Camassa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 118

11. Temporal Organization in Locomotor Activity of the Hypogean Loach, Nemacheilus Evezardi, and its Epigean Ancestor

    • Atanu Kumar Pati

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 129

12. Part 2. Ecology and conservation

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 132

13. Ecology of Subterranean Fishes: An Overview

    • Eleonora Trajano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 160

14. Population Biology and Growth of Ozark Cavefish in Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas

    • J. Zack Brown
    • James E. Johnson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 169

15. Threatened Fishes of the World: Ophisternon infernale (Hubbs, 1938) (Synbranchidae)

    • Roger Medina–González
    • Graham Proudlove
    • Thomas Iliffe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 170 - 170

16. How Hydrogeology has Shaped the Ecology of Missouri's Ozark Cavefish, Amblyopsis Rosae, and Southern Cavefish, Typhlichthys Subterraneus: Insights on the Sightless from understanding the Underground

    • Douglas B. Noltie
    • Carol M. Wicks

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 194

17. Habitat and Population Data of Troglobitic Armored Cave Catfish, Ancistrus Cryptophthalmus Reis, 1987, from Central Brazil (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)

    • Eleonora Trajano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 200

18. The Conservation Status of Hypogean Fishes

    • Graham S. Proudlove

    OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 213

19. Threatened Fishes of the World: Ogilbia pearsei (Hubbs, 1938)(Bythitidae)

    • Graham Proudlove
    • Roger Medina–González
    • Thomas Iliffe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 214 - 214

20. Status of the Federally Endangered Alabama Cavefish, Speoplatyrhinus Poulsoni (Amblyopsidae), in Key Cave and surrounding Caves, Alabama

    • Bernard R. Kuhajda
    • Richard L. Mayden

    OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 222

21. Part 3. Genetics and evolution

    OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 224

22. Genetic Differentiation among Populations of the Cave Fish Schistura Oedipus (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae)

    • Richard B. Borowsky
    • Lisa Mertz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 231

23. Origins and Relationship of Cave Populations of the Blind Mexican Tetra, Astyanax Fasciatus, in the Sierra De El Abra

    • Luis Espinasa
    • Richard B. Borowsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 237

24. Threatened Fishes of the World: Caecobarbus geertsii Boulenger, 1921 (Cyprinidae)

    • Graham S. Proudlove
    • Aldemaro Romero

    OriginalPaper Pages: 238 - 238

25. Morphological and Physiological Correlates of Evolutionary Reduction of Metabolic Rate among Amblyopsid Cave Fishes

    • Thomas L. Poulson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 249

26. Convergent Adaptations to Cave Life in the Rhamdia Laticauda Catfish Group (Pimelodidae, Teleostei)

    • Horst Wilkens

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 261

27. A review of Morphological and Behavioural Changes in the Cave Molly, Poecilia Mexicana, from Tabasco, Mexico

    • Jakob Parzefall

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 275

28. Part 4. Special cases

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 278

29. Troglomorphic Sculpins of the Cottus Carolinae Species Group in Perry County, Missouri: Distribution, External Morphology, and Conservation Status

    • Brooks M. Burr
    • Ginny L. Adams
    • Melvin L. Warren

    OriginalPaper Pages: 279 - 296

30. Milyeringa Veritas (Eleotridae), a remarkably versatile Cave Fish from the Arid Tropics of Northwestern Australia

    • William F. Humphreys

    OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 313

31. Mexican Blindcats Genus Prietella (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae): an overview of Recent Explorations

    • Dean A. Hendrickson
    • Jean K. Krejca
    • Juan Manuel Rodríguez Martinez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 337

32. A New Blind Cave Fish Population of Genus Astyanax: Geography, Morphology and Behavior

    • Luis Espinasa
    • Patricia Rivas-Manzano
    • Héctor Espinosa Pérez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 344

33. Adaptations of Cave Fishes with some Comparisons to Deep-sea Fishes

    • Thomas L. Poulson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 364

34. Species and Subject Index

    Subject Index Pages: 365 - 375