Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Rubicundus lakeside (Mincarone & McCosker, 2004)

Mixinos, Hagfishes

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Myxini

Order
Myxiniformes

Family
Myxinidae

Genus
Rubicundus

Species
lakeside

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Eptatretus lakeside Mincarone & McCosker, 2004 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Endemic

Status

Data deficient

Distribution

Distribution: Southeast Pacific: Galapagos Islands (Froese & Pauly, 2021).

References

  • 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
  • IUCN (2024) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-1. 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, Rubicundus lakeside", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24697. Accessed 31 October 2026.