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Martini's hagfish (Myxine mccoskeri)
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Martini's hagfish (Myxine mccoskeri) specimen
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Myxinidae

Martini's hagfish

Myxine mccoskeri

Four or five eggs line a body under thirty centimeters

  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Central America and the Caribbean
  • Anguilliform
  • Medium

Martini's hagfish is known around Western Central Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 28.6 cm.

Family
Myxinidae
Genus
Myxine
Maximum length
28.6 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
anguilliform
Distribution
Western Central Atlantic: Panama, southern Caribbean Sea.
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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