Animalia > Chordata > Myxini > Myxiniformes > Myxinidae > Eptatretus > Eptatretus stoutii

Eptatretus stoutii (Pacific hagfish; Lamperina; Hag-fish; California hagfish)

Synonyms: Bdellostoma stouti; Bdellostoma stoutii; Eptatretus stouti; Polistotrema stoutii
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Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Benthic
Diet [1]  Carnivore

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge IV 352 California, United States
Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve 293047 British Columbia, Canada  
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada

Prey / Diet

Eptatretus stoutii (Pacific hagfish)[2]
Ophiodon elongatus (Lingcod)[2]
Salmo pallaryi (Salmon)[2]
Squalus mitsukurii (Spiny dogfish)[2]

Predators

Eptatretus stoutii (Pacific hagfish)[2]
Phoca vitulina (Harbor Seal)[2]
Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Myxinidocotyle californica[4]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0