Broadgilled hagfish

Broadgilled hagfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Myxini
Order: Myxiniformes
Family: Myxinidae
Genus: Eptatretus
Species:
E. cirrhatus
Binomial name
Eptatretus cirrhatus
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Petromyzon cirrhatus Forster 1801
  • Homea banksii Fleming 1822
  • Eptatretus banksii (Fleming 1822)
  • Heptatremus banksii (Fleming 1822)
  • Bdellostoma forsteri Müller 1836
  • Bdellostoma heptatrema Müller 1836
1920s illustration of the body and mouth by Louis Thomas Griffin

The broadgilled hagfish or New Zealand hagfish (Eptatretus cirrhatus), also known by its Māori language name tuere, is a hagfish found around New Zealand and the Chatham Islands as well as around the south and east coasts of Australia, at depths between 1 and 900 metres.

  1. ^ Mincarone, M.M. (2011). "Eptatretus cirrhatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T154825A4644581. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T154825A4644581.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (2017). "Myxinidae". FishBase version (02/2017). Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  3. ^ Van Der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (1): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.