chapter 1 Cavefi sh: Retrospective and Prospective / chapter 2 Biodiversity and Distribution of the Subterranean Fishes of the World / chapter 3 Conservation of Subterranean Fishes / chapter 4 Behavioral Patterns in Subterranean Fishes / chapter 5 The Evolutionary Genetics of Cave Fishes: Convergence, Adaptation and Pleiotropy / chapter 6 Development as an Evolutionary Process in Astyanax Cavefi sh / chapter 7 Subterranean Fishes of North America: Amblyopsidae / chapter 8 Subterranean Fishes of Mexico (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae) / chapter 9 Subterranean Fishes of Brazil / chapter 10 Subterranean Fishes of Africa / chapter 11 Subterranean Fishes of China / chapter 12 Subterranean Fishes of India