Myxinidae

New Zealand hagfish

Eptatretus cirrhatus

White rims ring slime pores along purple brown skin

• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Anguilliform
• Large

The broadgilled hagfish or New Zealand hagfish (Eptatretus cirrhatus), also known by its Māori language name tuere, is a hagfish found around New Zealand and the Chatham Islands as well as around the south and east coasts of Australia, at depths between 1 and 900 metres.