Thanks, Bill. I do have a copy of Bulletin 26, and after I sent my email I looked up Subterráneo. I should have done that before sending my message. For some reason that name hadn't stuck with me.
Mark On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:26 AM William R. Elliott <speodes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cueva del Subterráneo is the most studied of the three Micos caves in the > Micos or Río Subterráneo Area, located 15 km west of Ciudad Valles, San > Luis Potosí, in the small Sierra de San Dieguito, just west of Sierra la > Colmena. > > The map was published in 2018: http://www.mexicancaves.org/maps/3772.pdf > > > It was published in AMCS Bulletin 26, which you can still buy at the AMCS > website. > > Elliott, William R. 2018. The *Astyanax* Caves of Mexico. Cavefishes of > Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, and Guerrero. Association for Mexican Cave > Studies, Bulletin 26. Austin, Texas. 326 pp. > > Or you can download the large pdf at my website at > https://cavelife.info/pdf/pdf.htm > > From my book: > > "Cueva del Río Subterráneo is about 500 m long, the largest cave in the > Micos Area. The lost cave survey of 1971 was found in 2017... The cave is > the original site of the “Micosfish” of Wilkens and Burns 1972, an evolving > population with reduced eyes and pigment, which hybridizes with surface > fishes in two of the three inhabited pools." > > Micos apparently is a different stock of fish from the main El Abra > Region, as determined by genomic studies. > > *William R. (Bill) Elliott* > > 30105 Briarcrest Court > > Georgetown, Texas 78628 > > *speodes...@gmail.com <speodes...@gmail.com>* > > 573-291-5093 cell > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 8:30 AM Mark Minton <mamintonca...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Very interesting. I've heard of most of the caves they mentioned, but not >> Subterráneo. >> Anyone know about that cave? >> >> Mark Minton >> >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 3:58 AM Jerry <jerryat...@aol.com> wrote: >> >>> Blind Mexican cave fish are developing cave-specific accents >>> The Mexican tetra has evolved to live in a number of dark caves – and >>> now we know that the fish in each cave use clicks to communicate in >>> distinct ways >>> >>> >>> https://www.newscientist.com/article/2316002-blind-mexican-cave-fish-are-developing-cave-specific-accents/ >>> >>> Jerry Atkinson >>> >>
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