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Cuban cusk-eel
Lucifuga subterranea Poey, 1858
Also calledpez ciego (spa)
First described in: Poey, F. (1858-1861). Memorias sobra la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba, acompañadas de sumarios Latinos y extractos en Francés. 2: 1-96 (1858), 97-336 (1860), 337-442 (1861), pls. 1-19; La Habana ["1856-1858"].
Lucifuga subterranea, or the Cuban cusk-eel, is a species of cavefish in the family Bythitidae. It is endemic to Cuba. Within the caves, sinkholes and crevices in which it occurs it is common, it feeds on cirolanid isopods.
== References ==
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
materials_examined
ANSP 37111, 70 mm SL, female, Cuba, Canas; USNM 204452, 40 and 72 mm SL, females, Cuba.
Revision of the Bahamian cave-fishes of the genus Lucifuga (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae), with description of a new species from islands on the Little Bahama Bank.
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Material examined. (38 specimens: 18 females, 20 males). Holotype: ZMB 6314, 69 mm SL, female, Cueva de Cajio, potrero de Torres, dos leguas, Sur de Guira de Melena, Habana province, Cuba, collected by Felipe Poey (see discussion about type status in Proudlove (2019)).
A new species of the cave-fish genus Lucifuga (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae), from eastern Cuba
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2346323.