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Myxinidae
Mottled hagfish
Eptatretus poicilus
Cream and brown mottling off Three Kings
- Island endemic
- Island endemic species
- Local endemic species
- Restricted distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- Anguilliform
- Large
Island endemic
Restricted distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
LargeMottled hagfish is a marine fish recorded from ocean habitats. A concise clue to the species is: Cream and brown mottling off Three Kings.
- Class
- Hagfishes
- Order
- Hagfishes
- Family
- Myxinidae
- Genus
- Eptatretus
- Maximum length
- 92.1 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: endemic to the Three Kings Islands of New Zealand (Ref. 115309 ).
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