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Definition of Blindfishes
1. blindfish [n] - See also: blindfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blindfishes
Literary usage of Blindfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"During the breeding season when the gill chambers are full of eggs much of the
respiration of the blindfishes is probably forced on the fins and general ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"In Amblyopsis, the largest of the blindfishes of the American caves, the batteries
of tactile organs form ridges projecting beyond the general surface of ..."
3. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... in different caves in the county of San Antonio, where they reach a length of
about five inches. As in other blindfishes, the body is translu- Fio. 646. ..."
4. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"In the greatest depths occur blindfishes, with rudimentary eyes, and without
special organs of touch. Many fishes of the deep sea are provided with more or ..."
5. The Fishes of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1896)
"... as tho fishes are concerned, i« this: Won* the blindfishes distributed to the
scattered localities where now found before or after they became blind ? ..."
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