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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 can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus, from specialized slime glands. [5] When released in seawater, the slime expands to 10,000 times its original size in 0.4 seconds. [ 12 ]
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 .
1920s illustration of the body and mouth by Louis Thomas Griffin. 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.
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)
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 slime glands along the body of the hagfish secrete enormous amounts of mucus when it is provoked or stressed. The gelatinous slime has dramatic effects on the flow and viscosity of water, rapidly clogging the gills of any fish that attempt to capture hagfish; predators typically release the hagfish within seconds.
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 ...