Broadgilled Hagfish


Description

Reference

IB0001

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Hagfishes - MYXINIDAE

Common Name

Broadgilled Hagfish

Scientific Name

Eptatretus cirrhatus

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

They are found in temperate waters worldwide. Hagfishes are opportunistic scavengers and feed by boring into the bodies of dead or dying animals.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia

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