Nemamyxine kreffti
Nemamyxine kreffti, the Krefft's hagfish, is a species of hagfish in the genus Nemamyxine. It is found in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean from off Argentina and southern Brazil.[1]
| Nemamyxine kreffti | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Infraphylum: | Agnatha |
| Class: | Myxini |
| Order: | Myxiniformes |
| Family: | Myxinidae |
| Genus: | Nemamyxine |
| Species: | N. kreffti |
| Binomial name | |
| Nemamyxine kreffti C. B. McMillan & Wisner, 1982 | |
Size
This species reaches a length of 40.0 cm (15.7 in).[2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of German ichthyologist-herpetologist Gerhard Krefft (1912‒1993), Institute für Seefischerei in Hamburg.[3]
References
- Fernholm, Bo (1998). "Hagfish systematics". In Jørgensen, Jørgen Mørup; Lomholt, Jens Peter; Weber, Roy E.; Malte, Hans (eds.). The Biology of Hagfishes. Chapman & Hall, London. pp. 33–44. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-5834-3_3.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Nemamyxine kreffti" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- Scharpf, Christopher. "Family MYXINIDAE" (PDF). The ETYFish Project. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
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