Fish Identification: Find Species

Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)	Year
Eptatretus aceroi		Caribbean	58.4 TL	2014
Eptatretus alastairi		Eastern Indian Ocean	49.5 TL	2010
Eptatretus albiderma	Whitish hagfish	Western Pacific	53 TL	2020
Eptatretus ancon		Western Central Atlantic	22.0 TL	2001
Eptatretus astrolabium		Western Pacific	40 TL	2010
Eptatretus atami	Brown hagfish	Northwest Pacific	61 TL	1904
Eptatretus bahamensis		Western Central Atlantic	31.3 TL	2024
Eptatretus bischoffii		Southeast Pacific	55 TL	1880
Eptatretus bobwisneri	Bob Wisner's hagfish	Southeast Pacific	35.6 TL	2013
Eptatretus burgeri	Inshore hagfish	Northwest Pacific	60 TL	1855
Eptatretus caribbeaus		Western Central Atlantic	38.5 TL	1982
Eptatretus carlhubbsi	Giant hagfish	Pacific Ocean	116 TL	1984
Eptatretus cheni		Northwest Pacific	37.7 TL	1975
Eptatretus chinensis		Western Pacific	37.5 TL	1994
Eptatretus cirrhatus	Broadgilled hagfish	Western Pacific	97 TL	1801
Eptatretus cryptus	Cryptic hagfish	Western Pacific	93.1 TL	2015
Eptatretus deani	Black hagfish	Eastern Pacific	63.5 TL	1907
Eptatretus fernholmi		Northwest Pacific	29.5 TL	1994
Eptatretus fritzi	Guadalupe hagfish	Eastern Pacific	59.2 TL	1990
Eptatretus fudgei		Western Atlantic, Caribbe	43.3 TL	2023
Eptatretus goliath	Goliath hagfish	Southwest Pacific	127.5 TL	2006
Eptatretus gomoni		Eastern Indian Ocean	79 TL	2010
Eptatretus goslinei	Gosline's hagfish	Southeast Pacific	36 TL	2021
Eptatretus grouseri	Grouser's hagfish	Southeast Pacific	37.8 TL	1999
Eptatretus hexatrema	Sixgill hagfish	Southeast Atlantic	80 TL	1836
Eptatretus indrambaryai		Indian Ocean	43.7 TL	1984
Eptatretus laurahubbsae		Southeast Pacific	37.5 TL	1984
Eptatretus longipinnis	Longfinned hagfish	Eastern Indian Ocean	62.7 TL	1975
Eptatretus luzonicus		Western Pacific	56.3 TL	2013
Eptatretus mcconnaugheyi	Shorthead hagfish	Eastern Central Pacific	48.2 TL	1990
Eptatretus mccoskeri	McCosker's hagfish	Southeast Pacific	32 TL	1999
Eptatretus mendozai		Western Atlantic	45 TL	1985
Eptatretus menezesi		Southwest Atlantic	73.7 TL	2000
Eptatretus minor		Western Central Atlantic	39.5 TL	1981
Eptatretus moki		Northwest Pacific	47 TL	2004
Eptatretus multidens		Western Atlantic	81.5 TL	1981
Eptatretus nanii		Southeast Pacific	66.4 TL	1988
Eptatretus nelsoni		Northwest Pacific	25.9 TL	1994
Eptatretus octatrema	Eightgill hagfish	Southeast Atlantic	30 TL	1923
Eptatretus okinoseanus		Northwest Pacific	80 TL	1904
Eptatretus poicilus	Mottled hagfish	Western Pacific	92.1 TL	2015
Eptatretus polytrema	Fourteen-gill hagfish	Southeast Pacific	93 TL	1855
Eptatretus profundus	Fivegill hagfish	Southeast Atlantic	62 TL	1923
Eptatretus sheni		Northwest Pacific	43 TL	1994
Eptatretus sinus	Cortez hagfish	Eastern Central Pacific	48.1 TL	1990
Eptatretus springeri	Gulf hagfish	Western Central Atlantic	59 TL	1952
Eptatretus stoutii	Pacific hagfish	Eastern Pacific	63.5 TL	1878
Eptatretus strahani		Western Central Pacific	62 TL	1984
Eptatretus strickrotti	Strickrott's hagfish	South eastern Pacific	31.4	2007
Eptatretus taiwanae		Northwest Pacific	33.4 TL	1975
Eptatretus wadgensis	Wadge Bank hagfish	Western Indian Ocean	40 TL	2022
Eptatretus walkeri		Northwest Pacific	51.8 TL	2004
Eptatretus wandoensis	5-gilled white mid-dorsal line hagfish	Northwest Pacific	29.2 TL	2020
Eptatretus wayuu		Western Atlantic	21.6 TL	2001
Eptatretus wisneri		Northwest Pacific	33.5 TL	1994
Eptatretus yangi		Northwest Pacific	29.6 TL	1958

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Fish Identification: Find Species

Class: MyxiniOrder: MyxiniformesFamily: Myxinidae HagfishesSubfamily: EptatretinaeGenus: Eptatretus(See list of species below)

Class: Myxini
Order: Myxiniformes
Family: Myxinidae Hagfishes
Subfamily: Eptatretinae
Genus: Eptatretus

(See list of species below)