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Common names:
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Occurrence:
endemic
Salinity:
marine
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Type localities Eptatretus luzonicus [homonym Eptatretus fernholmi McMillan & Wisner, 2004], 5.1 mi off Atolaya Point, Batag Island, east of the southern end of Luzon Island, USNM 207761 (37.3 cm TL) (Ref. 51420). Additional specimens collected in 2011 from the western part of Verde Island Passage (Ref. 95645).
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Occurrences:
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Main Ref:
Mincarone, M.M. and J.E. McCosker, 2014
National Database:
Myxini (hagfishes) > Myxiniformes (Hagfishes) > Myxinidae (Hagfishes) > Eptatretinae
Etymology: Eptatretus:hepta (Gr.), seven; tretos (Gr.), perforated (i.e., with holes), referring to seven gill apertures on what would later be described as Homea banksii (=E. cirrhatus) [range within genus is 6-14 pairs of gill apertures]. (See ETYFish); luzonicus:-icus (Gr.), belonging to: Luzon Island, Philippines, type locality [replacement name of E. fernholmi McMillan & Wisner 2004, which became a junior homonym of Paramyxine fernholmi Kuo, Huang & Mok 1994 when Paramyxine was subsumed into Eptatretus]. (See ETYFish).
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