The biology of hypogean fishes

An introduction to the special volume on the biology of hypogean fishes.- It's a wonderful hypogean life: a guide to the troglomorphic fishes of the world.- Scientists prefer them blind: the history of hypogean fish research.- Nontroglobitic fishes in Bruffey-Hills Creek Cave, West Virginia, and other caves worldwide.- 1. Anatomy, physiology and behavior.- The mechanosensory lateral line system of the hypogean form of Astyanax fasciatus.- Metabolic rate and natural history of Ozark cavefish, Amblyopsis rosae, in Logan Cave, Arkansas.- Locomotory responses of the cave cyprinid Phreatichthys andruzzii to chemical signals from conspecifics and related species: new findings.- Responses to light in epigean and hypogean populations of Gambusia affinis (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae).- Temporal organization in locomotor activity of the hypogean loach, Nemacheilus evezardi, and its epigean ancestor.- 2. Ecology and conservation.- Ecology of subterranean fishes: an overview.- Population biology and growth of Ozark cavefish in Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas.- Threatened fishes of the world: Ophisternon infernale (Hubbs, 1938) (Synbranchidae).- How hydrogeology has shaped the ecology of Missouri's Ozark cavefish, Amblyopsis rosae, and southern cavefish, Typhlichthys subterraneus: insights on the sightless from understanding the underground.- Habitat and population data of troglobitic armored cave catfish, Ancistrus cryptophthalmus Reis, 1987, from central Brazil (Siluriformes: Loricariidae).- The conservation status of hypogean fishes.- Threatened fishes of the world: Ogilbia pearsei (Hubbs, 1938) (Bythitidae).- Status of the federally endangered Alabama cavefish, Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni (Amblyopsidae), in Key Cave and surrounding caves, Alabama.- 3. Geneticsand evolution.- Genetic differentiation among populations of the cave fish Schistura oedipus (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae).- Origins and relationship of cave populations of the blind Mexican tetra,

Aldemaro Romero obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Miami (1984). Currently he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Arkansas State University. He has published more than 430 pieces of work including peer-reviewed articles, articles in non-peer-reviewed publications, books, book reviews, and abstracts. He has obtained numerous research grants, as well as teaching, research, and service awards from a variety of public and private agencies in the U.S. and abroad. His main interests include, but are not limited to, biology of cave organisms (particularly fish), environmental history of marine mammals in the Caribbean, and general evolutionary issues and he has used field, laboratory, and theoretical methodologies. He is particularly interested in interesting questions in science that require an interdisciplinary approach.