Image: Lateral view of a Broadgilled Hagfish head

A Broadgilled Hagfish caught in a commercial trawl net at a depth of about 160 m, off Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, July 2004. The fish is now registered in the Australian Museum Fish Collection (AMS I.43389-001).

Photographer:

David Greenhalgh

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© Australian Museum

Last Updated: 7 July 2012

Tags ichthyology, Broadgilled Hagfish, Eptatretus cirrhatus, Myxinidae, fishes, brown, long and skinny, 30cm - 1 m, marine, adult,