The Atlantic hagfish, scientifically known as Myxine glutinosa, is an unusual sea creature. Its body is covered with special glands that can emit a sticky slime. In fact, a single hagfish can produce enough slime at one time to fill a milk jug.
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The Atlantic hagfish or “slime eel”, Myxine glutinosa, is found in deep, cold waters to depths of at least 1100 m. In the western north Atlantic, hagfish are distributed from Davis Straits, Greenland to the continental slope waters off of Florida.
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Range: North Atlantic, ... Hagfishes feed on some marine worms and crustaceans, but they are best known for attacking dead and dying fish or fish trapped in nets. Using the toothlike plates on the tongue and the single tooth in the mouth, the hagfish bores into the prey's body and eats away all its flesh and intestines,
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Hagfishes live in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic Oceans and in the Bering, Mediterranean, and Caribbean Seas. ... Using its biting plate, a hagfish pierces the food animal and bores into it, eating the soft insides and leaving only the bones and skin or shell.
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Thus the Atlantic hagfish may be an active predator on shrimps and possibly ... 258* Predation and Competition: The Atlantic hagfish has few known enemies, ...
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Notes and images of Atlantic hagfish, updated from the Canadian Museum of Nature's Natural History Notebooks series. ... Home > Fish > Atlantic Hagfish...
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Distribution: The Atlantic hagfish is known on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. In Norway, it can be found as far north as Finnmark, usually deeper than 15-20. Registrations have been made as deep as 1300 meters.
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Observations of Atlantic hagfish Myxine glutinosa exploiting prey captured, but not fully consumed, by the horse star Hippasteria phrygiana and Jonah crab Cancer borealis are described. Such interactions are defined as encounter competition.
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