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Myxine Glutinosa

Fish

The Atlantic hagfish is a jawless fish in the class Myxini, reaching about 0.75 meters in length, with no eyes or jaws and a star-shaped mouth ringed by six barbels. It has a single gill slit on each side and can release defensive slime through as many as 88 to 102 pores on its body. It lives on muddy ocean floors at depths of roughly 20 to 1,000 meters, in the eastern Atlantic from Portugal and the Mediterranean to the North Sea and Varanger Fjord, and in the western Atlantic from Baffin Island to North Carolina. It is rated least concern for conservation.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Detritivore or Scavenger 1
System (Realm)
Marine 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Scientific Name
Myxine glutinosa 3
Conservation Status
Least Concern 3
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 4
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Myxini, Taxa
Source Myxine Glutinosa (Wikidata)

In Biome

Marine, Biomes
Source FishBase: FishBase species summary: Myxine glutinosa
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Chile

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Denmark

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Mexico

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Norway

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Sweden

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Sources
1. FishBase: FishBase species summary: Myxine glutinosa
FishBase
  • Biology: feeding
    Feeds chiefly on dead and dying fish of varying species by boring into the body and consuming viscera and musculature
  • In Biome: Marine, Environment
    Marine; bathydemersal; non-migratory
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2. GBIF Species API
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3. Myxine Glutinosa (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q780327 (P225 taxon name)
  • Wikidata P141 (IUCN conservation status) claim, entity QID Q780327
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
  • Child Taxon Of: Myxini, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Animalia
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 23
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 23
"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Animals","language":"EN"},{"name":"Fauna","language":"EN"},{"name":"Animaux","language":"FR"}],"cites_listings":[]
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