FB-68246 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68246 Animalia Chordata Holocephali Chimaeriformes Chimaeridae Chimaera Chimaera carophila Kemper, Ebert, Naylor & Didier, 2014 Blueband hagfish 2017-06-16 2021-10-08 Zintzen, V., C.D. Roberts, L. Shepherd, A.L. Stewart, C.D. Struther, M.J. Anderson, M. McVeagh, M. Noren and B. Fernholm0 Review and phylogeny of the New Zealand hagfishes (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae), with description of three new species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 174:363-393. (Ref. 115309) FB-GeneralDescr-68255 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Andrea Hennyey 2017-06-27 21:26:17 2024-03-04 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68255 Observed actively hunting a live red bandfish Cepola haastii (Ref. 115309). Zintzen, V., C.D. Roberts, L. Shepherd, A.L. Stewart, C.D. Struther, M.J. Anderson, M. McVeagh, M. Noren and B. Fernholm 2015 Review and phylogeny of the New Zealand hagfishes (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae), with description of three new species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 174:363-393. (Ref. 115309) FB-DiagnosticDescr-68255 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Andrea Hennyey 2017-06-28 00:00:00 2017-06-28 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68255 Diagnosis: 161–199 total slime pores, trunk length 63.5–68.3% TL, tail length 10.9–14.0% TL, slime glands not visible under skin, body colour pale with clear lateral blue band, margin of cloaca and at least some slime pore rims blackish; differs from N. biniplicata by its trunk length (63.5–68.3 versus 55.6–61.2% TL), tail length (10.9–14.0 versus 14.4–19.3% TL), slime glands aspect (not visible under skin versus visible under the skin like a series of beads), body colour (pale with clear lateral blue band versus pink-grey), margin of cloaca colour (blackish versus whitish), and slime pores rim colour (at least some blackish versus same colour as surrounding tissues) (Ref. 115309).Description: 2/2 multicusp pattern; anterior unicusps, 6 (5–7); posterior unicusps, 6; left side cusps, 16 (15–17); prebranchial pores, 40 (37–48); trunk pores, 116 (102–133); tail pores, 18 (16–21); total pores, 174 (161–199); 7 pairs of gill pouches (6 for 1 paratype) and a single pair of gill apertures, the left aperture being confluent with the pharyngocutaneous duct; morphometrics as percentage of TL; prebranchial length, 21.9% (20.4–24.7%); trunk length, 64.4% (63.5–68.3%); tail length, 13.3% (10.9–14.0%); greatest body depth including ventral finfold, 3.6% (3.5–5.2%); greatest body depth excluding ventral finfold, 3.3% (3.1–4.7%); depth at gill aperture, 2.8% (2.7–4.3%); depth at cloaca, 2.6% (2.8–3.8%); tail depth, 2.5% (1.9–2.9%); body eel-like, elongate, slender, cylindrical, circular anteriorly, becoming compressed posteriorly; rostrum bluntly rounded; 2 bilaterally symmetrical nasalsinus papillae in the dorsal surface of the nasal sinus; eyespots absent; 3 pairs of barbels on head, 1st 2 subequal in size 1.1% TL (0.7–0.9% TL), 3rd one longer 1.2% TL (1.0–1.5% TL) and adjacent to oral cavity; ventral finfold starting in the vicinity of the gill aperture (22.3% TL, 20.6–24.1% TL) and extending to the cloaca, with length 63.3% TL (63.3–68.0% TL) and depth 1.7 mm (1.2–3.0 mm); a pair of ventrolateral branchial finfolds starting at 17.5% TL (14.1–19.2% TL) anteriorly and extending posteriorly to the gill apertures, with length 5.8% TL (5.0–10.4% TL) and depth 1.2 mm (0.5–2.4 mm); caudal finfold rounded, equally developed ventrally and dorsally, beginning immediately posterior to edge of cloaca, extending around tail to dorsal surface, ending just after the tail tip; slime glands not visible under the skin; dental muscle reaching the 1st gill pouch (counting from head), with length 9.6% TL (11.5–13.9% TL); ventral aorta not branching (Ref. 115309).Colour: head and body pinkish to pale yellow to grey, with a pale light blue mid-flank band; the blue band still visible in preservative; barbels pale yellow to creamy white; cloaca and tail margins dusky blue-grey; some, often most, slime pores with a halo of dusky black contrasting against the rest of the body (Ref. 115309). Zintzen, V., C.D. Roberts, L. Shepherd, A.L. Stewart, C.D. Struther, M.J. Anderson, M. McVeagh, M. Noren and B. Fernholm 2015 Review and phylogeny of the New Zealand hagfishes (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae), with description of three new species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 174:363-393. (Ref. 115309) FB-Distribution-68255 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Andrea Hennyey 2017-06-27 21:58:29 2018-02-01 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68255 Western Pacific: New Zealand endemic; widespread in the New Zealand region along the east coast of the North Island, from off Great Barrier Island south to Kaikoura and the Chatham Rise (Ref. 115309). Zintzen, V., C.D. Roberts, L. Shepherd, A.L. Stewart, C.D. Struther, M.J. Anderson, M. McVeagh, M. Noren and B. Fernholm 2015 Review and phylogeny of the New Zealand hagfishes (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae), with description of three new species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 174:363-393. (Ref. 115309) FB-TrophicStrategy-68255 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Andrea Hennyey 2017-06-27 22:55:37 2017-06-27 22:55:37 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ caesiovitta Found at depths of 97–1198 on mud to coarse sand bottoms, but is more common below 500 m (Ref. 115309). Zintzen, V., C.D. Roberts, L. Shepherd, A.L. Stewart, C.D. Struther, M.J. Anderson, M. McVeagh, M. Noren and B. Fernholm 2015 Review and phylogeny of the New Zealand hagfishes (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae), with description of three new species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 174:363-393. (Ref. 115309) FB-Size-68255 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Andrea Hennyey 2017-06-27 21:26:17 2024-03-04 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68255 64.8 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 115309)) Zintzen, V., C.D. Roberts, L. Shepherd, A.L. Stewart, C.D. Struther, M.J. Anderson, M. McVeagh, M. Noren and B. Fernholm 2015 Review and phylogeny of the New Zealand hagfishes (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae), with description of three new species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 174:363-393. (Ref. 115309) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-68255 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Andrea Hennyey 2017-06-27 21:26:17 2024-03-04 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68255 bathydemersal; marine; depth range 97 - 1198 m (Ref. 115309) Zintzen, V., C.D. Roberts, L. Shepherd, A.L. Stewart, C.D. Struther, M.J. Anderson, M. McVeagh, M. Noren and B. Fernholm 2015 Review and phylogeny of the New Zealand hagfishes (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae), with description of three new species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 174:363-393. (Ref. 115309)