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Myxinidae
hagfish
Myxine glutinosa
A body knot lends force for tearing flesh
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Anguilliform
- Large
Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
LargeMyxine glutinosa, also known as the Atlantic hagfish, is a type of jawless fish belonging to the class Myxini.
- Class
- Hagfishes
- Order
- Hagfishes
- Family
- Myxinidae
- Genus
- Myxine
- Maximum length
- 95 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- North Atlantic: Murmansk to the Mediterranean Sea; Greenland to USA. Absent in eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. Only hagfish in the Northeast Atlantic.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
