MEXICAN BLINDCAT. Prietella phreatophila (Carranza, 1954) The Mexican blindcat is a catfish that lives only in groundwater — up to 2,000 feet underground in the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer underlying the ...

The Mexican blindcat is a species that grows no more than 3 inches in length and is known to inhabit the areas around the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer, which lays beneath the Rio Grande basin in Texas ...

DEL RIO, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity and Del Rio’s Casa de la Cultura will host a community event Oct.16 to celebrate a new mural of the Mexican blindcat, an endangered catfish found in ...

The Mexican blindcat is unique because it won't grow larger than three inches long. The blindcats have a pinkish-white color because their blood can be seen through their translucent skin.

Johnson couldn’t be sure, but he believed he had laid eyes on the Mexican blindcat, a catfish endangered in Mexico and never before spotted in the United States. One of three rare catfish species in ...

The Mexican blindcat was originally described in 1954 when found in wells and springs near Melchor Múzquiz in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila.

A Mexican blindcat is seen in an undated courtesy photo provided Monday, June 20, 2016, by the University of Texas at Austin. The three-inch-long endangered fish, previously only found in Mexico ...

The endangered Mexican blindcat is slow-swimming, grows up to 3 inches long, and maintains a light pink hue because its blood is visible through its translucent skin.

A never before seen species of fish was recently discovered in Texas - and they're unique in color, size, and the fact that they're blind.

In a Texas cave, scientists have discovered an extremely rare eyeless fish previously known to exist only in a small area of Mexico. The creature, known as the Mexican blindcat (Prietella ...

The blind catfish—known as a Mexican blindcat—was recorded by a team from the University of Texas at Austin after being spotted and captured swimming near Del Rio in Texas.