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Hagfish, of the class Myxini / m ɪ k ˈ s aɪ n aɪ / (also known as Hyperotreti) and order Myxiniformes / m ɪ k ˈ s ɪ n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /, are eel-shaped jawless fish (occasionally called slime eels). Hagfish are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, although they do have rudimentary vertebrae. [3]
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.
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.
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. [6]
Eptatretus deani. 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 ...
Rubicundus lakeside, the Lakeside hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. [2] 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. The specific epithet lakeside honors the Lakeside Foundation of California for ...
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It is a harmless scaleless, eel-like animal with a pinkish body, a whitish head and a whitish mid dorsal stripe. The size of captured specimens ranges between 91 and 394 mm. The southern hagfish is found in the cold waters of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean from the coasts off Southwestern Brazil down to the Southern Ocean and the Tierra del ...