Eptatretus

Eptatretus
Eptatretus stoutii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Infraphylum: Agnatha
Class: Myxini
Order: Myxiniformes
Family: Myxinidae
Subfamily: Eptatretinae
Genus: Eptatretus
Cloquet, 1819
Type species
Gastrobranche dombey
Lacepède, 1798
Synonyms
  • Bdellostoma Mueller 1835
  • Dodecatrema Fowler 1947
  • Myxine (Heptatrema) Voigt 1832
  • Heptatrema Dumeril 1832 ex Voigt 1832
  • Petromyzon (Heptatremus) Swainson 1839
  • Heterotrema Girard 1855 non Fiedler 1889
  • Hexabranchus Schultze 1836 non Ehrenberg 1831
  • Hexatrema Girard, 1855
  • Homea Fleming 1822
  • Polistotrema Gill ex Jordan & Gilbert 1881
  • Polytrema Girard, 1855 non Rafinesque 1819 non Ferussac 1822 non D'Orbigny 1850 non Risso 1826 non Hickson 1911 non Clarke 1908
  • Paramyxine Dean 1904
  • Quadratus Wisner 1999 non Thiergart & Frantz 1962
  • Heptatretus Regan 1912
  • Diporobranchia Latreille 1825
Drawing of Eptatretus cirrhatus

Eptatretus is a large genus of hagfish having multiple gill openings, but lacking the elongated snout that is a diagnostic feature of hagfish in genus Rubicundus.

Species

There are currently 50 recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fernholm, B.; Norén, M.; Kullander, S.O.; Quattrini, A.M.; Zintzen, V.; Roberts, C.D.; Mok, H.-K.; Kuo, C.-H. (2013). "Hagfish phylogeny and taxonomy, with description of the new genus Rubicundus (Craniata, Myxinidae)". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 51 (4): 296–307. doi:10.1111/jzs.12035.
  2. ↑ Van Der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (1): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
  3. ↑ Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (2017). "Petromyzontidae". FishBase version (02/2017). Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  4. ↑ Mincarone, M M; Plachetzki, D; McCord, C L; Winegard, T M; Fernholm, B; Gonzalez, C J; Fudge, D S (2021). "Review of the hagfishes (Myxinidae) from the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of four new species and their phylogenetic relationships". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192 (2): 453–474. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa178. ISSN 0024-4082.
  5. ↑ Polanco Fernandez, A.; Fernholm, B. (2014). "A New Species of Hagfish (Myxinidae: Eptatretus) from the Colombian Caribbean". Copeia. 2014 (3): 530–533. doi:10.1643/CI-12-147.
  6. 1 2 Zintzen, V.; Roberts, C.D.; Shepherd, L.; Stewart, A.L.; Struthers, C.D.; Anderson, M.J.; McVeagh, M.; Noren, M.; Fernholm, B. (2015). "Review and phylogeny of the New Zealand hagfishes (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae), with a description of three new species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (2): 363–393. doi:10.1111/zoj.12239.
  7. ↑ Wisner, R. L.; McMillan, C. B. (1988). "A new species of hagfish, genus Eptatretus (Cyclostomata, Myxinidae), from the Pacific Ocean near Valparaiso, Chile, with new data on e. Bischoffii and e. Polytrema". Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 21: 227–244. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.24585.
  8. ↑ Y. S., Young; J-K, Kim (2020). "A new species of hagfish, Eptatretus wandoensis sp. nov. (Agnatha, Myxinidae), from the southwestern Sea of Korea". ZooKeys (926): 81–94. Bibcode:2020ZooK..926...81S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.926.48745. PMC 7170979. PMID 32336921.