Myxine circifrons Garman 1899
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Myxini
- order
- Myxiniformes
- family
- Myxinidae
- genus
- Myxine
- species
- Myxine circifrons
description
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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Myxine circifrons Garman 1899