Southern hagfish

Southern hagfish
Southern hagfish
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Myxini
Order: Myxiniformes
Family: Myxinidae
Genus: Myxine
Species: M. australis
Binomial name
Myxine australis
Jenyns, 1842

The Southern hagfish (Myxine australis) is a hagfish of the genus Myxine.

Description

It is a harmless scaleless, eel-like animal with a pinkish body, a whitish head and a whitish mid dorsal stripe. The size of captured specimens ranges between 91 and 394 mm.

The Southern hagfish is found in the cold waters of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean from the coasts off Southwestern Brazil down to the Southern Ocean and the Tierra del Fuego and the Patagonian coasts of Chile and Argentina, including the Strait of Magellan. [1]

It lives hidden in the mud in relatively shallow water, between 10 and 100 metres. Its life cycle is unknown.[2]

References

  1. ^ First record of the Southern hagfish Myxine australis in Brazilian waters
  2. ^ Fishbase Myxine australis



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