Species

Eptatretus stoutii (Pacific hagfish)

Eptatretus stoutii. Photo: (c) jeanette_bham, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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The Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) is a species of hagfish. It lives in the mesopelagic to abyssal Pacific ocean, near the ocean floor. It is a jawless fish and has a body plan that resembles early paleozoic fish. They are able to excrete prodigious amounts of slime in self-defense.

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
  - Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
    - Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
      - Superclass: Agnatha (Jawless fishes)
        Class: Myxini (Hagfishes)
        Order: Myxiniformes (Hagfishes)
        Family: Myxinidae (Hagfishes)
        Subfamily: Eptatretinae (Eptatretine hagfishes)
        Genus: Eptatretus
        Species: Eptatretus stoutii (Pacific hagfish)

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