Jakarta, Feb. 27 -- Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), in collaboration with the Indonesian Speleological Society and the Species Obscura Foundation, have discovered a new species of blind cave fish in Bogor district, West Java.

Speaking to the press on February 27, Kunto Wibowo, a researcher from BRIN's Centre for Biosystematics and Evolution Research, noted that the fish species was found inhabiting the Klapanunggal karst area, leading to its scientific naming as Barbodes klapanunggalensis.

This freshwater fish is completely blind, with its eyes degenerated into hollow structures covered by skin, he said.

He stressed the need for the Government to launch a more stringent protection system for the Klapanunggal...