Nemamyxine kreffti

Nemamyxine kreffti
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
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

Nemamyxine kreffti, also known as Krefft's hagfish, is a species of fish in the hagfish family Myxinidae. It is found in the south-western Atlantic Ocean from off Argentina and southern Brazil.^[2]

Description

This species reaches a length of 40.0 cm (15.7 in).^[3]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of German ichthyologist-herpetologist Gerhard Krefft (1912‒1993), Institute für Seefischerei in Hamburg.^[4]

References

doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T196072A8990430.en
. Retrieved 6 January 2024.

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.

Taxon identifiers
Nemamyxine kreffti

Wikidata: Q4749627

Wikispecies: Nemamyxine kreffti

CoL: 466BZ

FishBase: 54044

GBIF: 2498698

iNaturalist: 106692

IRMNG: 10144218

ITIS: 622283

IUCN: 196072

OBIS: 281658

Open Tree of Life: 3644221

WoRMS: 281658

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[iucn_status_6_January_2024-1] doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T196072A8990430.en
. Retrieved 6 January 2024.

[2] :10.1007/978-94-011-5834-3_3
.

[3] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Nemamyxine kreffti" in FishBase. February 2015 version.

[4] Scharpf, Christopher. "Family MYXINIDAE" (PDF). The ETYFish Project. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-03-15.

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