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Myxinidae
Blueband hagfish
Neomyxine caesiovitta
It actively hunts live red bandfish
- Blue
- Tropical
- Island endemic
- Island endemic species
- Local endemic species
- Restricted distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- Anguilliform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Blue
Tropical
Restricted distribution
Anguilliform
LargeNeomyxine caesiovitta, the blueband hagfish, is a species of hagfish endemic to New Zealand.
- Class
- Hagfishes
- Order
- Hagfishes
- Family
- Myxinidae
- Genus
- Neomyxine
- Maximum length
- 64.8 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: New Zealand endemic; widespread in the New Zealand region along the east coast of the North Island, from off Great Barrier Island south to Kaikoura and the Chatham Rise (Ref. 115309 ).
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