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Myxine circifrons Garman 1899
Description
Myxine circifrons Garman, 1899.
Whiteface Hagfish. To 55.5 cm (21.9 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). San Francisco, northern California to northcentral Chile (Wisner and McMillan 1990). The Islas Galápagos record listed in Miller and Lea (1972) appears to be in error (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: about 700–1,860 m (2,297 –6,102 ft) (Wisner and McMillan 1995).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myxinidae
- Genus
- Myxine
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myxiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Garman
- Species
- circifrons
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myxine circifrons Garman, 1899 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Wisner, R. L. & McMillan, C. B. (1990) Three new species of hagfishes, genus Eptatretus (Cyclostomata, Myxinidae), from the Pacific Coast of North America, with new data on E. deani and E. stoutii. Fishery Bulletin, 88, 787 - 804.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Wisner, R. L. & McMillan, C. B. (1995) Review of new world hagfishes of the genus Myxine (Agnatha, Myxinidae) with descriptions of nine new species. Fishery Bulletin, 93, 530 - 550.