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Amblyopsis

Amblyopsis is a small genus of cavefishes endemic to the central and eastern United States. Due to its life in dark waters, the fish is blind. The most recently described species was in 2014.

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Far from feeling any surprise that some of the cave-animals should be very anomalous, as Agassiz has remarked in regard to the blind fish, the Amblyopsis, and as is the case with the blind Proteus with reference to the reptiles of Europe, I am only surprised that more wrecks of ancient life have not been preserved, owing to the less severe competition to which the inhabitants of these dark abodes will probably have been exposed.