New Zealand hagfish
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E. cirrhatus
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| Eptatretus cirrhatus (J. R. Forster, 1801)
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The New Zealand hagfish, or Broadgilled Hagfish,[2] (Eptatretus cirrhatus), is a hagfish of the genus Eptatretus, found in south and east Australia, and around New Zealand, at depths of between 40 and 700 metres. Their length is up to 1 metre.
References
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- ↑ Broadgilled Hagfish, Eptatretus cirrhatus (Forster, 1801)
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- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Eptatretus cirrhatus" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
