Blind Fish
the name of several species of fish, family amblyopsidæ, inhabiting the American cave streams. The They are all small, the largest not exceeding five inches. In the typical species (amblyopsis spelxus) of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, the eyes are reduced to a useless rudiment hidden under the skin, the body is translucent and colorless, and the head and body are covered with numerous rows of sensitive papillæ, which form very delicate organs of touch.
BLIND WORM (so called from the small size of its eyes), the English name of a reptile, the anguis fragilis, formerly considered a serpent, but now classed with the most aberrant of the lizards. It is more commonly called the slow worm.
It is not venomous. It feeds on slugs.