Blind cave tetra
Amazing fact
The blind cave tetra senses water movements and vibrations with the lateral line along its body.
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The blind cave tetra senses water movements and vibrations with the lateral line along its body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blind cave tetra
- Scientific name
- Astyanax jordani
- Japanese name
- ブラインドケーブカラシン
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Characiformes
- Family
- Characidae
- Genus
- Astyanax
How the Blind cave tetra lives
It eats small organisms, organic matter and sometimes algae.
Aquarium del Puerto de VeracruzBasic data
- Range
- Mexico
Where the Blind cave tetra has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ブラインドケーブカラシン
- 简体中文
- 盲鱼
- 繁體中文
- 盲魚
- Español
- Sardinita ciega
- Italiano
- Caracide cieco delle caverne
- ไทย
- ปลาถ้ำตาบอด
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ブラインドケーブカラシンChecked: 2026-11-04
- Aquarium del Puerto de Veracruz — pez ciegoChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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