Eptatretus strickrotti

Taxobox
name = "Eptatretus strickrotti"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Myxini
ordo = Myxiniformes
familia = Myxinidae
genus = "Eptatretus"
species = "E. strickrotti"
binomial = "Eptatretus strickrotti"
binomial_authority = Møller & Jones, 2007

"Eptatretus strickrotti" is a hagfish of the genus "Eptatretus", found in the Pacific Ocean depths south of Easter Island. The hagfish was found in March 2005 by DSV "Alvin" pilot Bruce Strickrott, and a year later was determined by scientists to be a new species. [http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/new-hagfish-discovered CryptoMundo: New Hagfish Discovered] It is the first hagfish recorded from a hydrothermal vent. [Møller, P.R. & W.J. Jones (2007). [http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/content/abstract/212/1/55 "Eptatretus strickrotti" n. sp. (Myxinidae): First Hagfish Captured From a Hydrothermal Vent] . "Biol. Bull." 212: 55-66.]

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