Gulf hagfish

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The Gulf hagfish lives in the bathydemersal, non-migratory, marine, depth range 400 - 730 m environment.

The gulf hagfish (Eptatretus springeri) is currently the only known species with the ability to enter brine pools, or pools of extremely high salt content, unharmed. These pools resemble lakes on the ocean floor. They exist in both the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea. More

The gulf hagfish is currently the only known species with the ability to enter brine pools, or pools of extremely high salt content, unharmed. More

The gulf hagfish (Eptatretus springeri) is currently the only known species with ... en.wikipedia.org 2 Eptatretus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... hagfish, Eptatretus cirrhatus (Forster, ... Eptatretus lopheliae Fernholm & Quattrini, 2008 ... More

Common names

Golf-slimål in Danish (dansk)
Gulf hagfish in English
史氏粘盲鰻 in Mandarin Chinese
史氏粘盲鳗 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Myxiniformes
Family : Myxinidae
Genus : Eptatretus
Species : Eptatretus springeri
Authority : Bigelow and Schroeder, 1952