Myxinidae

Lophelia's Hagfish

Rubicundus lopheliae

It escapes tail first through cold water coral

• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• North America
• Anguilliform
• Medium

Rubicundus lopheliae, the lophelia hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. It was originally classified in the genus Eptatretus, but a 2013 analysis reclassified into the new genus Rubicundus, considered the most basal genus of hagfish. This is the only member of Rubicundus known from more than one specimen.