Eptatretus strickrotti

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Eptatretus strickrotti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Myxini
Order: Myxiniformes
Family: Myxinidae
Genus: Eptatretus
Species: E. strickrotti
Binomial name
Eptatretus strickrotti
Møller & Jones, 2007

Eptatretus strickrotti is a hagfish of the genus Eptatretus, found in the Pacific Ocean depths south of Easter Island. The hagfish was found in March 2005 by DSV Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott, and a year later was determined by scientists to be a new species.[1] It is the first hagfish recorded from a hydrothermal vent.[2]

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