Blind species of fish discovered by chance in Kurdistan
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 09:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
No scales or eyes—together with a team of Iraqi scientists, researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK) have described a strange new species of fish, Eidinemacheilus proudlovei. The species was first discovered in the Kurdish region of Iraq at the end of March 2016. The blind fish, belonging to the stone loach family, lives in inaccessible subterranean streams.