Lucifuga dentata
Poey 1858
Redrawn by Rhian Kendall from Nalbant (1981)
| ORDER | SUB-ORDER | FAMILY |
|---|---|---|
| Ophidiiformes | Bythitoidei | Bythitidae |
Synonyms
Lucifuga dentatus Poey 1858
Stygicola dentatus Gill 1863
Country
CubaTypes
The status of the type specimens for this species, and for Lucifuga subterranea, the second and third described subterranean fishes, is not known with any degree of certainty. The Catalog of Fishes (Eschmeyer, Fricke and van der Laan 2018) says: "Syntypes and/or Poey specimens: MCZ 12415 (1), 32329 (1); ZMB 5961 (1)" and cites the type catalog of Howell Rivero (1938). However, this type catalogue is quite specific in mentioning only MCZ 32329 as the holotype and neither MCZ 12415 nor ZMB 5961 are mentioned. MCZ 12415 is given as collected in 1861 and if this is correct it cannot be part of a type series for a name published in 1858 (date from Romero 2007). Romero (2007) concludes that MCZ 32329 is the holotype with the possibilty that it could also be MCZ 12415 but see above for date issues.
The type catalogue of Faloh-Gandarilla et al. 2016:10, presumably the most reliable source in this matter, says that MCZ 12415 (1 specimen), MCZ 32329 (1 specimen), ZMB 5961 (1 specimen) are three syntypes.
This species is the type species by monotypy of the genus Stygicola.
Distribution
Type locality: Cueva de Cajio, Potrero de Torres, Dos Leguas, (c. 8.5 km), Sur de Guira de Melena, Habana province, Cuba. Other sites from which this species has been collected are given by Eigenmann (1909), Taboada (1974) and Garcia Debras, Gonzalez and Yager (1999) (22o-23oN,80o-84oW). This species has been found in locations from the extreme east and west sides of Cuba.
| Province | Municipality | Cave | Coexistence |
| Pinar Del Rio | Sandino | Cenote Pozo Azul | |
| Pibar Del Rio | Ciudad De La Habana | Cueva El Coral | |
| Habana | Alquizar | Cueva del Cafertal La Industria | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Artemisa | Cueva De Ashton | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Artemisa | Cueva Emilio | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Artemisa | Cueva Bano II | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Artemisa | Cueva Modesta | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Artemisa | Cueva en la Tranquilidad | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Artemisa | Cueva en Los Frias | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Artemisa | Cueva Los Perez | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Artemisa | Cueva cerca de Canas | |
| Habana | Caimito | Cueva Paredones | |
| Habana | Guira De Melena | Cueva Jaiguan | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Guira De Melina | Cueva Cajio * | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Quivican | Cueva Juanelo Piedra | L. subterranea |
| Habana | Quivican | Cueva Luis Piedra | L. subterranea |
| Habana | La Salud | Cueva del Tunel |
L. subterranea L. simile |
| Matanzas | Cardenas | Cueva Cepero | |
| Matanzas | Cardenas | Cueva La Chucha | |
| Matanzas | Cardenas | Cueva Santa Catalina | |
| Matanzas | Cardenas | Cueva del Estadio | |
| Matanzas | Cardenas | Cueva Armada | |
| Matanzas | Cardenas | Cueva Rompe Saraguey | |
| Matanzas | Jaguey Grande | Cueva de la Careta | |
| Matanzas | Jaguey Grande | Cueva de Perico Sanchez | |
| Matanzas | Pedro Betancourt | Cueva Gran Columna | |
| Matanzas | Pedro Betancourt | Cueva Negra | |
| Matanzas | Pedro Betancourt | Cueva Chicharrones | |
| Matanzas | Pedro Betancourt | Cueva La Palma | |
| Matanzas | Pedro Betancourt | Cueva los Chivos | |
| Matanzas | Pedro Betancourt | Cueva El Arriero | |
| Matanzas | Pedro Betancourt | Cueva Chela o de Antonio | |
| Matanzas | Pedro Betancourt | Cueva Pichi | |
| Matanzas | Ubion de Reyes | Cueva de la M |
|
Known distribution of Lucifuga dentata. * type locailty
Habitat
Inhabits anchialine caves.
Systematics
See the discussion of the phylogenetics and distribution of the genus Lucifuga under Lucifuga subterranea.
Biological Notes
The diet of Lucifuga dentata (18 specimens) and Lucifuga simile (4 specimens) was examined by Garcia-Debras and Perez Gonzalez (1999). They found that the fishes consumed principally Mysidacea, Isopoda, Amphipoda, Decapoda and Diptera Culicidae larvea.
Garcia, Coy Otero and Ventosa (1999) studied the nematode parasites of the Cuban speleofauna and Coy Otero, Garcia and Ventosa (1997) the nematode parasites of Lucifuga specifically.
Conservation Status
MuG [NE]
Alfredo Garcia Debras (pers. comm.) reports that some historical locations for this species have been partially or totally destroyed, some are affected by pollution from industrial and /or domestic sources and others by various engineering works. He also states that some marine fish species have been introduced into the habitat of Lucifuga species, where they not only compete for resources (mainly food), but also actively prey on the cave fishes.
Museum Holdings
Romero (2007) provides the following list of museum specimens and in addition there is
one more specimen, the third of three syntypes, ZMB 5961. * syntypes
| Catalogue number | Locality in Cuba | Collector | Collection date |
| MCZ 32329 * | Cuevas en San Antonio | Poey et al. | Not known |
| MCZ 12415 * | Not known | Poey | 1861 |
| MNHN A-5232 | Not known | Not known | 1865 |
| MNHN A-5233 | Not known | Not known | 1865 |
| FMNH 3933 | Cave near Alacranes | Eigenmann and Riddle | March 1902 |
| CAS 6714 | Cañas | Eigenmann | March 1902 |
| CAS 30437 | Not known | Eigenmann and Riddle | 1902 |
| FMNH 112219 | Not known | Eigenmann | c.1902 |
| CAS/SU 8511 | Cave near Pedregales | Eigenmann | c.1902 |
| FMNH 96223 | Not known | H.B. Ward | 25 August 1904 |
| BMNH 1904.1.28.132 | Cueva Tranquilidad | Not known | 1904 |
| BMNH 1904.1.28.133 | Cueva Tranquilidad | Not known | 1904 |
| BMNH 1904.1.28.134 | Cueva Tranquilidad | Not known | 1904 |
| MCZ 29903 | Matanzas, Cañas (?) | Eigenmann | 1910 |
| FMNH 33084 | Not known | Eigenmann ? | 2 November 1936 |
| MCZ 36166 | Pinar del Rio | L.R. Rivas | 1940 |
| BMNH 1981.10.27.1 | Not known | Not known | 1981 |
| BMNH 1981.10.27.2 | Not known | Not known | 1981 |
| BMNH 1981.10.27.3 | Not known | Not known | 1981 |
| BMNH 1981.10.27.4 | Not known | Not known | 1981 |
| FMNH 52595 | Cañas | Not known | Not known |
| AMNH 1537 | Cueva Modesta | B. Dean | Not known |
| AMNH 10143 | Rio taco Taco | Not known | Not known |
| MCZ 30615 | Finca La Carbonera | Thomas Barbour | Not known |
| MCZ 30616 | Cueva del Mar | Thomas Barbour | Not known |
| MCZ 30617 | Cueva del Mar | Thomas Barbour | Not known |
| MCZ 31212 | Cueva del Mar | Carlos de la Torre | Not known |
| MCZ 31213 | Guira de Melena | Carlos de la Torre | Not known |
Internet Resources
Genome and transcriptome https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/95388
Key References
- Poey, F. (1858)
- Lane, H. H. (1903)
- Lane, H. H. (1908)
- Eigenmann, C.H. (1909)
- Lane, H.H. (1909)
- Kosswig, C. (1934)
- Howell Rivero, L. (1938)
- Nunez Jimenez, A. (1944)
- Juberthie, C. (1971)
- Taboada, G.S. (1974)
- Vina, N., Davila, Zaida and Grana, A. (1975)
- Thines, G. and Piquemal, M. (1978)
- Cohen, D.M. and Nielsen, J.G. (1978)
- Durand, J.P. (1978)
- Vergara, R. (1980)
- Vergara, R. (1980)
- Nunez Jimenez, A. (1980)
- Varela, E., Barros, O. and Jimenez, S. (1980)
- Vergara, R. (1980)
- Vergara, R. (1981)
- Vergara, R. (1981)
- Wourms, J.P. (1981)
- Nalbant, T. T. (1981)
- Burgess, G.H. (1983)
- Diaz-Perez, P.A., Nieto, E. and Abio, G. (1987)
- Burgess, G.H. and Franz, R. (1987)
- Wilkens, H., Strecker, U. and Yager, J. (1989)
- Yager, J., Spokane, R. B., Bozanic, J. E., Williams, D. W. and Balado, E. (1994)
- Coy Otero, A., Garcia, N. and Ventosa, L. (1997)
- Durand, J.P. (1998)
- Garcia Debras, A. and Gonzalez, A.P. (1999)
- Garcia-Debras, A., Gonzalez, A.P. and Yager, J. (1999)
- Garcia, N., Coy Otero, A. and Ventosa, L. (1999)
- Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F. and Robins, C.R. (1999)
- Garrido-Linares, M. and Acero, P.A. (2006)
- Romero, A. (2007)
- Garcia-Machado, E., Hernandez, D., Moller, P.R., Bernatchez, L. and Casane, D. (2011)
- Faloh-Gandarilla, I., Alvarez-Lajonchere, L.S., García-Machado, E., Guiérrez de los Reyes, E., Orozco, M.V., Cortés, R., Alfonso, Y., Lemus, E., Corrada Wong, R.I., Chevalier-Monteagudo, P., Fernández Osoria, A.R., Pérez de los Reyes, R. and I. Àlvarez, S (2016)
- Knudsen, S.W., Møller, P.R., Schwarzhans, W. and Nielsen, J.G. (2016)
- Moller, P.R., Knudsen, S.W., Schwarzhans, W. and Nielsen, J.G. (2016)
- Policarpo, M., Fumey, J., Lafargeas, P., Legendre, L., Naquin, D., Thermes, C., Møller, P.R., Bernatchez, L., García-Machado, E., Rétaux, S. and Casane, D. (2019)
- Ditter, R.E., Erdman, R.B., Goebel, A.M. and Bracken-Grissom, H.D. (2019)
- Ditter, R.E., Snyder, A.P., Schulman, S.E. and Bracken-Grissom, H.D. (2019)
- Ditter, R.E., Mejía-Ortíz, L.M. and Bracken-Grissom, H.D. (2020)
- Policarpo, M., Fumey, J., Lafargeas, P., Naquin, D., Thermes, C., Naville, M., Dechaud, C., Volff, J.-M., Cabau, C., Klopp, C., Rask Møller, P., Bernatchez, L., García-Machado, E., Rétaux, S. and Casane, D. (2020)
- Policarpo, M., Fumey, J., Lafargeas, P., Naquin, D., Thermes, C., Naville, M., Dechaud, C., Volff, J.-M., Cabau, C., Klopp, C., Rask Møller, P., Bernatchez, L., García-Machado, E., Rétaux, S. and Casane, D. (2020)
| Poey, F. | Book Section | 1858 | Peces ciegos de la isla de Cuba, comparados con algunas especies de distinto genero |
| Lane, H. H. | Journal Article | 1903 | The ovarian structure of the viviparous blind fishes Lucifuga and Stygicola |
| Lane, H. H. | Journal Article | 1908 | On the ovary and ova of the Cuban cavefishes |
| Eigenmann, C.H. | Book | 1909 | Cave vertebrates of America, a study in degenerative evolution |
| Lane, H.H. | Book Section | 1909 | On the overy and ova in Lucifuga and Stygicola |
| Kosswig, C. | Journal Article | 1934 | Uber bislang unbekannte Sinnesorgane dei dem blinden Hohlenfisch Stygicola dentatus (Poey) |
| Howell Rivero, L. | Journal Article | 1938 | List of the fishes, types of Poey, in the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy |
| Nunez Jimenez, A. | Journal Article | 1944 | Los peces ciegos en Cuba |
| Juberthie, C. | Journal Article | 1971 | Notes sur l'ecologie des poissons souterraines de Cuba |
| Taboada, G.S. | Book | 1974 | Sinopsis de la espeleofauna Cubana. Serie espeleologica y carsologica No. 43 |
| Vina, N., Davila, Zaida and Grana, A. | Journal Article | 1975 | Contribucion al conocimiento de los peces cavernicolas de Cuba |
| Thines, G. and Piquemal, M. | Journal Article | 1978 | Observations sur les comportements de Lucifuga subterranea Poey (Pisces, Ophidiidae), poisson cavernicole de Cuba |
| Cohen, D.M. and Nielsen, J.G. | Journal Article | 1978 | Guide to the identification of genera of the fish order Ophidiiformes with a tentative classification of the order |
| Durand, J.P. | Journal Article | 1978 | Phenomenes de convergences tissulaires et cytologiques, lies aux processus degeneratifs qui affectent l'oeil chez deux teleoteens cavericoles Asytyanax (Anoptichthys) mexicanus (Characidae) et Lucifuga (Stygicola) dentatus (Ophidiidae) |
| Vergara, R. | Journal Article | 1980 | Estudio fenetico de los peces ciegos del genero Lucifuga |
| Vergara, R. | Journal Article | 1980 | Estudio filogenetico del los peces ciegos del genero Lucifuga (Pisces, Ophidiidae). I Sistematica filogenetica |
| Nunez Jimenez, A. | Journal Article | 1980 | 40 anos explorando a Cuba |
| Varela, E., Barros, O. and Jimenez, S. | Book Section | 1980 | The effects of sugar-waste disposal on a karstic limestone aquifer |
| Vergara, R. | Journal Article | 1980 | Principales caracteristicas de la ictiofauna dulceacuicola cubana |
| Vergara, R. | Journal Article | 1981 | Estudio filogenetico del los peces ciegos del genero Lucifuga (Pisces, Ophidiidae). II Bibliografia filogenetica |
| Vergara, R. | Journal Article | 1981 | Estudio filogenetico del los peces ciegos del genero Lucifuga (Pisces, Ophidiidae). III Aspectos evolutivos |
| Wourms, J.P. | Journal Article | 1981 | Viviparity: The maternal-fetal relationship in fishes |
| Nalbant, T. T. | Journal Article | 1981 | A study of the subterranean species of Lucifuga from Cuba, with the description of Lucifuga simile sp. n. (Pisces, Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae) |
| Burgess, G.H. | Book Section | 1983 | Lucifuga |
| Diaz-Perez, P.A., Nieto, E. and Abio, G. | Journal Article | 1987 | Peces ciegos del genero Lucifuga (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae) en dos casimbas cubanas |
| Burgess, G.H. and Franz, R. | Book Section | 1987 | Zoogeography of the Antillean freshwater fish fauna |
| Wilkens, H., Strecker, U. and Yager, J. | Journal Article | 1989 | Eye reduction and phylogenetic age of ophidiiform cave fishes |
| Yager, J., Spokane, R. B., Bozanic, J. E., Williams, D. W. and Balado, E. | Journal Article | 1994 | An ecological comparison of two anchialine caves in Cuba with emphasis on water chemistry |
| Coy Otero, A., Garcia, N. and Ventosa, L. | Journal Article | 1997 | Helmintos de peces cubanos del genero Lucifuga Poey, 1858 (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) |
| Durand, J.P. | Journal Article | 1998 | Degenerescence spontanee des yeax du poisson cavernicole Lucifuga subterraneus Poey, 1861 (Teleostei, Ophidioidei) |
| Garcia Debras, A. and Gonzalez, A.P. | Journal Article | 1999 | Estudio sobre la dieta de peces Cubanos (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) |
| Garcia-Debras, A., Gonzalez, A.P. and Yager, J. | Journal Article | 1999 | Distribucion geografica de los peces ciegos (Ophidiiformes: Bitytidae) Cubanos |
| Garcia, N., Coy Otero, A. and Ventosa, L. | Journal Article | 1999 | Nematodos asociados a la espeleofauna Cubana |
| Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F. and Robins, C.R. | Journal Article | 1999 | Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date |
| Garrido-Linares, M. and Acero, P.A. | Journal Article | 2006 | Peces Ophidiiformes del Atlántico occidental tropical con especial énfasis en el mar Caribe colombiano |
| Romero, A. | Journal Article | 2007 | The discovery of the first Cuban blind cave fish: The untold story |
| Garcia-Machado, E., Hernandez, D., Moller, P.R., Bernatchez, L. and Casane, D. | Conference Paper | 2011 | Phylogenetic relationships among Cuban and Bahamian species of the blind cave-fishes genus Lucifuga: A shared lineage among two isoloated archipelagoes |
| Faloh-Gandarilla, I., Alvarez-Lajonchere, L.S., García-Machado, E., Guiérrez de los Reyes, E., Orozco, M.V., Cortés, R., Alfonso, Y., Lemus, E., Corrada Wong, R.I., Chevalier-Monteagudo, P., Fernández Osoria, A.R., Pérez de los Reyes, R. and I. Àlvarez, S | Journal Article | 2016 | Catálogo ilustrado de los especímenes tipo de peces cubanos II (Osteichthyes, clase: Actinopterygii: Cyprinodontiformes, Gadiformes, Lampridiformes, Mugiliformes, Myctophiformes, Ophidiformes). |
| Knudsen, S.W., Møller, P.R., Schwarzhans, W. and Nielsen, J.G. | Journal Article | 2016 | Molecular, morphological and fossil input data for inferring relationship among viviparous brotulas (Bythitidae) – Resulting in a family status change for Dinematichthyidae |
| Moller, P.R., Knudsen, S.W., Schwarzhans, W. and Nielsen, J.G. | Journal Article | 2016 | A new classification of viviparous brotulas (Bythitidae) – with family status for Dinematichthyidae – based on molecular, morphological and fossil data |
| Policarpo, M., Fumey, J., Lafargeas, P., Legendre, L., Naquin, D., Thermes, C., Møller, P.R., Bernatchez, L., García-Machado, E., Rétaux, S. and Casane, D. | Conference Paper | 2019 | Molecular decay of light-processing genes in cavefishes: assessing the effects of time, genome architecture and gene flow |
| Ditter, R.E., Erdman, R.B., Goebel, A.M. and Bracken-Grissom, H.D. | Journal Article | 2019 | Widespread phenotypic hypervariation in the enigmatic anchialine shrimp Barbouria cubensis (Decapoda: Barbouriidae) |
| Ditter, R.E., Snyder, A.P., Schulman, S.E. and Bracken-Grissom, H.D. | Journal Article | 2019 | Notes on the behavior and first records of three enigmatic anchialine shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea: Barbouriidae, Palaemonidae) in the Bahamas |
| Ditter, R.E., Mejía-Ortíz, L.M. and Bracken-Grissom, H.D. | Journal Article | 2020 | Anchialine adjustments: an updated phylogeny and classification for the family Barbouriidae Christoffersen 1987 (Decapoda: Caridea) |
| Policarpo, M., Fumey, J., Lafargeas, P., Naquin, D., Thermes, C., Naville, M., Dechaud, C., Volff, J.-M., Cabau, C., Klopp, C., Rask Møller, P., Bernatchez, L., García-Machado, E., Rétaux, S. and Casane, D. | Journal Article | 2020 | Contrasted gene decay in subterranean vertebrates: insights from cavefishes and fossorial mammals |
| Policarpo, M., Fumey, J., Lafargeas, P., Naquin, D., Thermes, C., Naville, M., Dechaud, C., Volff, J.-M., Cabau, C., Klopp, C., Rask Møller, P., Bernatchez, L., García-Machado, E., Rétaux, S. and Casane, D. | Journal Article | 2020 | Contrasted gene decay in subterranean vertebrates: insights from cavefishes and fossorial mammals |