How to pronounce“cavefishes”in English

Its closest relatives are cavefishes in Kentucky, in the Mammoth Cave system.

Unfortunately for cavefishes, their groundwater habitat is also our main source of drinking water.

But the genes in these cavefishes can also tell us about deep geological time, maybe no more so than in this species here.

Now, cavefishes can tell me a lot about biology and geology.

And I'm going to spend my one life as an ichthyologist trying to discover and save these humble little blind cavefishes

We named it Amblyopsis hoosieri, the Hoosier cavefish.