Hyaline fish

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Zhao, Y. |author2=Du, L. |author3=Zhou, J. |year=2024 |title=Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus |volume=2024 |page=e.T20253A252573431 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T20253A252573431.en |access-date=4 April 2025}}

| taxon = Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus

| display_parents = 3

| authority = Y. R. Chen & J. X. Yang, 1993

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The hyaline fish (Sinocyclocheilus hyalinus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. This threatened species is found only in Yunnan in China. Like many other cavefish, it lacks scales, pigmentation and external eyes.{{FishBase |genus= Sinocyclocheilus |species= hyalinus| month = April| year = 2017}} The first recorded description of an obligate cavefish involved this species, when mentioned in 1540 in the travel notes of Yingjing Xie, a local governor of Guangxi.{{cite book|author=Ma, L.|author2= Y.-H. Zhao |name-list-style=and |year=2012 |chapter=Cavefish of China|pages=107—125|editor=White, W.B.|editor2=D.C. Cuvier|title=Encyclopedia of Caves |publisher=Elsevier|isbn=9780123838322}}