Broadgill Hagfish

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The broadgilled hagfish has an eel-like body with no dorsal fin, a paddle-like tail and are often a grey-brown with a pink or bluish tinge of color. As with all other hagfish, the broadgilled hagfish has a skull but no jaw or true vertebral column, it instead has a skeleton made up of cartilage. The rounded mouth of the hagfish is surrounded by 6 barbels, above that is their singular nasal passage and just inside the mouth is a dental plate with a row of posterior and anterior keratinous grasping teeth on each side.

It has seven pairs of gill pouches and forming a line down both the lower sides of its body are pores which often many of them are ringed with a white color and are used for secreting a snot-like slime which expands out once it has contact with the sea water. Juvenile broadgilled hagfish are lighter in color.

Similar to other hagfish species, the hagfish has been dubbed the most "disgusting" of all sea creatures by members of the scientific and popular media due to its peculiar eating habits and ability to produce slime. Hagfish, despite being referred to as "slime eels" at times, are not actually eels.

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This species targets fish trapped by hook or trap, just like other hagfish. To eat the meat and viscera inside the prey's body, they dig inside it. They also consume dead fish carcasses that have sunk to the ocean floor. Generally speaking, hagifish pose little threat to people. When threatened, they are known to produce copious amounts of slime, however this slime is harmless.

The New Zealand hagfish is common throughout the temperate coastal shelves in Australia and New Zealand, in depths ranging between 1m and 900m. The hagfish is most common between 90 and 700m.

• Movement Pattern: Random

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Unknown

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Aquatic

• Habitat: Warm Littoral; Cold Littoral; Warm Intertidal; Cold Intertidal; Kelp Forest; Coral Reef; Barrier Reef; Guyot; Neritic Zone (Warm); Neritic Zone (Cold); Pelagic Zone (Warm); Pelagic Zone (Cold); Benthic Zone.

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): Australia; New Zealand

• Berbania/Hirawhassa: 

  • Extant & Introduced: Dinojerulla; Zowhringe

• Reinachos/Ityosel: 

  • Extant & Introduced: Ascunsia; Nueva Joaquin

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Past and Present Incidents - Individuals

• Terran/Gaian

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• Berbanian/Hirawhassan

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• Reinachos/Ityoselese

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• Delphian/Thatrollwan

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• Sawintiran

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• Jotunheim

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The Recollections of Queen Arianna - Individuals

• Terran/Gaian

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• Berbanian/Hirawhassan

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• Reinachos/Ityoselese

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• Delphian/Thatrollwan

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• Sawintiran

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• Jotunheim

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See also: none

• Euskara: Australiako sorgin-arraina

• English: Broadgilled hagfish

• Español: Pez bruja de Australia

• Nihongo: ニュージーランドヌタウナギ (Nyūjīrandonutaunagi)

• Maori: Tuere Aotearoa, Tuere

• Nederlands: Australische slijmprik

• Norsk: Australsk slimål

• Svenska: Australisk smygfisk

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadgilled_hagfish

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q780463

• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eptatretus_cirrhatus

• https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Eptatretus_cirrhatus

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=78394

• https://bench.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_TaxonPage?taxid=52940

• https://www.fishbase.org/summary/23878

• https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/154825/4644581

• https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/broadgilled-hagfish-eptatretus-cirrhatus-forster-1801/

• https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1999

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Broadgilled-Hagfish-1228428292