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Broadgilled hagfish

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Broadgilled hagfish
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Myxini
Order:
Myxiniformes
Family:
Myxinidae
Genus:
Eptatretus
Species:
E. cirrhatus
Binomial name
Eptatretus cirrhatus

The New Zealand hagfish, or broadgilled hagfish,[2] (Eptatretus cirrhatus), is a hagfish of the genus Eptatretus, found in south and east Australia, and around New Zealand, at depths of between 40 and 700 metres. Their length is up to 1 metre.

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN2011.1
  2. ^ Broadgilled Hagfish, Eptatretus cirrhatus (Forster, 1801)
  • "Eptatretus cirrhatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Eptatretus cirrhatus" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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