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Myxinidae
Alastair's Hagfish
Eptatretus alastairi
Twin symmetric papillae hide in the nasal sinus roof
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Oceania
- Anguilliform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
MediumAlastair's Hagfish is known from Eastern Indian Ocean as a marine fish. It occurs in deep water.
- Class
- Hagfishes
- Order
- Hagfishes
- Family
- Myxinidae
- Genus
- Eptatretus
- Maximum length
- 49.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Eastern Indian Ocean: Western Australia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
