Rubicundus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Infraphylum: | Agnatha |
| Class: | Myxini |
| Order: | Myxiniformes |
| Family: | Myxinidae |
| Subfamily: | Rubicundinae Fernholm et al., 2013 |
| Genus: | Rubicundus Fernholm et al, 2013 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Rubicundus rubicundus (Kuo, Lee & Mok 2010)
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Rubicundus is a
Galápagos, and Taiwan, respectively. They are named after the distinctive red coloration that all species share.[2]
They are considered the most basal extant lineage of hagfishes, and may represent the sister group to the Cretaceous fossil hagfish Tethymyxine, from which they potentially diverged during the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous. Both the Rubicundinae and Tethymyxine share an elongate snout, indented barbels, and numerous slime glands.[3]
Species
Four recognized species are placed in this genus:[4][5]
- Rubicundus eos (Fernholm, 1991) (pink hagfish)
- Rubicundus lakeside (Mincarone & J. E. McCosker, 2004) (Lakeside hagfish)
- Rubicundus lopheliae (Fernholm & Quattrini, 2008) (lophelia hagfish)
- Rubicundus rubicundus (C. H. Kuo, S. C. Lee & H. K. Mok, 2010)
References
- ^ Fernholm, B., Norén, M., Kullander, S.O., Quattrini, A.M., Zintzen, V., Roberts, C.D., Mok, H.-K. & Kuo, C.-H. (2013): Hagfish phylogeny and taxonomy, with description of the new genus Rubicundus (Craniata, Myxinidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 51 (4): 296–307.
- ^ "Rubicundus rubicundus". www.fishbase.se. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- PMID 30670644.
- PMID 25543675.
- ^ Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (2017). "Petromyzontidae". FishBase version (02/2017). Retrieved 18 May 2017.