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Myxinidae
Mendoza's Hagfish
Eptatretus mendozai
Six gill pairs align with over seventy slime pores
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- Anguilliform
- Medium
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
MediumMendoza's Hagfish is a marine fish from Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 45 cm.
- Class
- Hagfishes
- Order
- Hagfishes
- Family
- Myxinidae
- Genus
- Eptatretus
- Maximum length
- 45 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Caribbean Sea.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
