Pacific hagfish - Wikipedia
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 fishes. They can excrete copious amounts of slime in self-defense.
Pacific Hagfish: The ancient deep-sea creature that can can choke …
2024年6月8日 · Pacific Hagfish: The ancient deep-sea creature that can can choke a shark by spewing slime
Pacific Hagfish - Smithsonian Ocean
The Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii), a fish that looks similar to an eel, has no jaw and is totally blind. They find food, often dead fish, through a specialized sense of smell and, because they can absorb nutrients through their skin, can eat by just burrowing into a dead carcass.
Pacific Hagfish | Online Learning Center - Aquarium of the Pacific
Pacific hagfish, also known as the California hagfish and slimy eels, are eel-like primitive fish little changed in the past 330 million years of fossil records. They do not have jaws, a stomach or jaws.
Eptatretus stoutii (California hagfish) - ADW
Pacific hagfish are a member of one of the most primitive craniate groups. Pacific hagfish have changed little over the past 330 million years, and closely resemble the first craniates. The evolutionary path leading to Homo sapiens probably diverged from hagfish approximately 530 million years ago. Hagfish can go several months without eating.
Pacific hagfish Enhanced Status Report - California
A related species, the black hagfish (Eptatretus deani), occurs in deeper waters than Pacific hagfish although their distributions overlap. Landings are sometimes mixed, but those of straight black hagfish are rare.
Pacific hagfish Enhanced Status Report - California
Report on the biology of Pacific hagfish, Eptatretus stouti, and the development of its fishery in California. Report, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service-Southwest Region. 39 p.
Pacific Hagfishes ~ MarineBio Conservation Society
Pacific hagfishes, Eptatretus stoutii (Lockington, 1878), aka California hagfishes, hag-fishes, lamperinas, and slime eels, are one of 60 known species of hagfish. They have a terminally-positioned mouth with four pairs of sensory tentacles or barbells on the lateral sides of …
Pacific Hagfish | California Sea Grant
The Pacific hagfish scavenges on dead and dying animals using its sense of smell. It typically feeds by either burrowing into its prey with its rasping teeth, or by entering through an existing opening and eating its way out.
Pacific Hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Pacific hagfish. Kingdom. Animalia. Location in Taxonomic Tree . Genus. Eptatretus. Species. Eptatretus stoutii. Identification Numbers. TSN: 622244. Geography. Working with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
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