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Eptatretus deani, the black hagfish, is a species of hagfish. Common to other species of hagfish, their unusual feeding habits and slime -producing capabilities have led members of the scientific and popular media to dub the hagfish as the most "disgusting" of all sea creatures. [4][5][6] Although hagfish are sometimes called "slime eels", they ...
Egg development in a female black hagfish, Eptatretus deani Drawing of Eptatretus polytrema Very little is known about hagfish reproduction. Obtaining embryos and observing reproductive behavior are difficult due to the deep-sea habitat of many hagfish species. [ 46 ]
Pacific hagfish. The Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) is a species of hagfish. It lives in the mesopelagic to abyssal Pacific Ocean, near the ocean floor. It is a jawless fish and has a body plan that resembles early Paleozoic fish. They are able to excrete prodigious amounts of slime in self-defense.
Myxine glutinosa var. limosa Putnam, 1874. Myxine glutinosa var. australis Putnam, 1874. Myzinus glutinosus (Linnaeus, 1758) Petromyzon myxine Walbaum, 1792. Myxine glutinosa, known as the Atlantic hagfish in North America, and often simply as the hagfish in Europe, is a species of jawless fish of the genus Myxine.
Inshore hagfish. The inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri) is a hagfish found in the Northwest Pacific, from the Sea of Japan and across eastern Japan to Taiwan. It has six pairs of gill pouches and gill apertures. [4] These hagfish are found in the sublittoral zone. They live usually buried in the bottom mud and migrate into deeper water to spawn.
There are currently 49 recognized species in this genus: [1][2][3] Eptatretus aceroi Polanco Fernández & Fernholm, 2014 (Acero's hagfish) [4] Eptatretus alastairi Mincarone & Fernholm, 2010 (Alastair's hagfish) Eptatretus ancon H. K. Mok, Saavedra-Diaz & Acero P, 2001. Eptatretus astrolabium Fernholm & Mincarone, 2010 (Astrolabe hagfish)
Broadgilled hagfish. The broadgilled hagfish or New Zealand hagfish (Eptatretus cirrhatus), also known by its Māori language name tuere, is a hagfish found around New Zealand and the Chatham Islands as well as around the south and east coasts of Australia, at depths between 1 and 900 metres.
Rubicundus lopheliae, the lophelia hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. [2][3][4] It was originally classified in the genus Eptatretus, but a 2013 analysis reclassified into the new genus Rubicundus, considered the most basal genus of hagfish. [5] This is the only member of Rubicundus known from more than one specimen.