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A related species, the Gulf hagfish (Eptatretus springeri), occurs in the Gulf of Mexico. [7]To distinguish these two types of hagfishes, we can look at their lateral line and eyes, the Myxine glutinosa has no lateral line system and also an unpigmented, cornea-like window in the skin overlying the eye.
Hagfish embryos have characteristics of gnathostomes and may be plesiomorphic; [33] however, these characteristics drastically change morphologically as the hagfish matures. [33] The following hagfish and lamprey phylogeny is an adaptation based on the 2019 work of Miyashita et al. [ 69 ]
Eptatretus springeri, the Gulf hagfish, [3] is a bathy demersal vertebrate which lives primarily in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. [4] It has been observed feeding at and around brine pools : areas of high salinity which resemble lakes on the ocean floor that do not mix with the surrounding water due to difference in density .
Eptatretus polytrema Girard, 1855 (Fourteen-gill hagfish) Eptatretus profundus Barnard, 1923 (Fivegill hagfish) Eptatretus sheni C. H. Kuo, K. F. Huang & H. K. Mok, 1994; Eptatretus sinus Wisner & C. B. McMillan, 1990 (Cortez hagfish) Eptatretus springeri Bigelow & Schroeder, 1952 (Gulf hagfish) Eptatretus stoutii Lockington, 1878 (Pacific hagfish)
Myxine limosa, or Girard's Atlantic hagfish, is a jawless fish in the genus Myxine. [1] [2] Description. The eellike species grows up to 79 centimetres (31 in) long ...
Southern hagfish (Myxine australis) mid-19th century drawing by Günther. Myxine / m ɪ k ˈ s aɪ n iː / is a genus of hagfish, from the Greek μυξῖνος (myxinos, "slimy").It is the type genus of the class Myxini.
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.
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.