Mottled Hagfish

Eptatretus poicilus Zintzen, Roberts, Shepherd, Stewart, Struthers, Anderson, McVeagh, Noren & Fernholm 2015

Eptatretus poicilus (Mottled Hagfish) is a species of hagfishes in the family slime eels. Individuals can grow to 92.1 cm.

EOL has data for 5 attributes, including:

geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Western Pacific: endemic to the Three Kings Islands of New Zealand (Ref. 115309)
habitat includes
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bathyal zone
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000026
- Definition: The mariine bathyal zone biome comprises regions of the marine benthic biome between approximately 200 m and 3000 m depth. This zone generally coincides with the continental slope.
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Total length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001660
- Definition: length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body
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92.1 cm
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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842 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Mottled hagfish. View this species on GBIF