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Myxinidae
Colombian Hagfish
Eptatretus ancon
The first gill duct triples the last
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- Anguilliform
- Medium
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
MediumColombian Hagfish is a marine fish found in ocean habitats. One memorable detail in its record is this: The first gill duct triples the last.
- Class
- Hagfishes
- Order
- Hagfishes
- Family
- Myxinidae
- Genus
- Eptatretus
- Maximum length
- 22 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Central Atlantic: off La Punta de los Remedios, Caribbean Sea.
- Conservation status
- DDData Deficient
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
