Myxine: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Myxini
- Order
- Myxiniformes
- Family
- Myxinidae
- Genus
- Myxine
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Myxine
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Myxine
Myxine is a genus of hagfish, from the Greek μυξῖνος (myxinos, "slimy"). It is the type genus of the class Myxini.
In 2021, three new species of Myxine were described from the Galápagos including M. phantasma, the only species of Myxine to not have melanin-based pigments.
...Myxine in languages:
- Japanese
- ホソヌタウナギ属
- Russian
- Миксины
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Myxine affinis
- Myxine australis
- Myxine capensis
- Myxine circifrons
- Myxine debueni
- Myxine fernholmi
- Myxine formosana
- Myxine garmani
- Myxine glutinosa
- Myxine greggi
- Myxine hubbsi
- Myxine hubbsoides
- Myxine ios
- Myxine jespersenae
- Myxine knappi
- Myxine kuoi
- Myxine limosa
- Myxine martinii
- Myxine mccoskeri
- Myxine mcmillanae
- Myxine paucidens
- Myxine pequenoi
- Myxine phantasma
- Myxine robinsorum
- Myxine sotoi