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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality Eptatretus fernholmi, off Atolaya Point, Batag Island, E 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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Main Ref: Mincarone, M.M. and J.E. McCosker, 2014
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Classification / Names

Myxini (hagfishes) > Myxiniformes (Hagfishes) > Myxinidae (Hagfishes) > Eptatretinae
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Common names from other countries

Luzoni imisuu, ... more

Main reference

Mincarone, M.M. and J.E. McCosker. 2014. (Ref. 95645)
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Size / Weight / Age

Max length : 37.3 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 95645); 56.3 cm TL (female)

Environment

Marine; bathydemersal; non-migratory; depth range 563 - 710 m (Ref. 95645)

Climate / Range

Deep-water; 7°C - ? (Ref. 95645), preferred ?; 20°N - 5°N, 116°E - 128°E

Distribution

Western Pacific: known only from the type locality in the Philippines.
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Short description

This species can be distinguished from its known congeners by the following set of characters: gill pouches 8 pairs; 3-cusp multicusps on the anterior sets and 2-cusp multicusps on the posterior sets of cusps; total cusps 47-51; prebranchial pores 13-15; trunk pores 49-55; total pores 84-88; a single nasal-sinus papilla in the middorsal surface of the nasal sinus (Ref. 95645).

The holotype was collected from the type locality over green muddy bottom at bottom temperature of 6.8°C, surface water temperature 28.3°C (Anonymous, 1910). Additional specimens from the Verde Island Passage were collected at 578 and 710 m, sediment type ranged from mud to sand (Ref. 95645).

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

Data deficient (DD)

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Estimates of some properties based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805)
PD₅₀ = 0.5000 many relatives (e.g. carps) 0.5 - 2.0 few relatives (e.g. lungfishes)

Trophic Level (Ref. 69278)
4.4 ±0.5 se; Based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 69278)
Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (Fec assumed to be <100)

Vulnerability (Ref. 59153)
Moderate vulnerability (38 of 100)

Price category (Ref. 80766)
Low

Eptatretus luzonicus Fernholm, Norén, Kullander, Quattrini, Zintzen, Roberts, Mok & Kuo, 2013