Pacific hagfish

Eptatretus stoutii

One slime cell coils a thread sixty centimeters long

Temperate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Pacific Ocean
North America
Anguilliform
Large
Temperate fish

The Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) is a species of hagfish. It lives in the mesopelagic to abyssal Pacific Ocean, near the ocean floor. It is a jawless fish and has a body plan that resembles early Paleozoic fishes.

Class: Hagfishes
Order: Hagfishes
Family: Myxinidae
Genus: Eptatretus
Maximum length: 63.5 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform
Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southeastern Alaska to Bahia San Pablo, central Baja California, Mexico.
Conservation status: DDData Deficient

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