Cumaca Cave
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Cumaca Cave is a large cave located in northern of Trinidad, in the southeastern area of the Northern Range. This cave is sometimes also called Oropouche. The caves are home to the Oilbirds, These are the only nocturnal fruit eating birds in the world. They forage at night, navigating by echolocation in the same way as bats.
The cave is also home to Hypogean fishes. Most notably the semi blind catfish, Rhamdia quelen first believed to be a distinct cave species and was named Caecorhamdia urichi. But now know as a troglomorphic form of Rhamdia quelen, with reduced eye size and reduced pigmentation.
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- Aldemaro Romero,Replacement of the Troglomorphic Population of Rhamdia quelen (Pisces: Pimelodidae) by an Epigean Population of the Same Species in the Cumaca Cave.Copeia, Vol. 2002, December 2002.
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