Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Eptatretus goslinei
Pez bruja o hiperotreto, Hagfishes
Hagfishes are an ancient group of benthic marine craniates that are found in deep or cold waters around the world
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Myxini
Order
Myxiniformes
Family
Myxinidae
Genus
Eptatretus
Species
goslinei
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Sp. nov was recently described from Galapagos Island
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- Mincarone, M.M. D Plachetzki, C L McCord, T M Winegard, B Fernholm, C J Gonzalez, D S Fudge (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, zlaa178
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"Galapagos Species Database, Eptatretus goslinei", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18971. Accessed 31 October 2026.