Myxinidae

Caribbean Hagfish

Myxine mcmillanae

Seven to eleven long eggs bear faint polar caps

• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Central America and the Caribbean
• Anguilliform
• Medium

Myxine mcmillanae, the Caribbean hagfish, is a species of hagfish. It is a scaleless, eel-like fish found in Caribbean waters that feeds off material from the surface that drifts down. It is rarely seen as it lives in very deep water from 2,300-4,950 ft (700-1,500 m) and likes to burrow into the mud.