''Eptatretus strickrotti'', commonly known as Strickrott's hagfish, is a hagfish of the genus ''

Eptatretus ''Eptatretus'' is a large genus of hagfish. Species There are currently 49 recognized species in this genus: * ''Eptatretus aceroi'' Polanco Fernández & Fernholm, 2014 (Acero's hagfish)Polanco Fernandez, A. & Fernholm, B. (2014): A New Specie ...

'', found in the depths of the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

south of

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. The hagfish was found in March 2005 by DSV ''Alvin'' pilot Bruce Strickrott, and a year later was determined by scientists to be a new species. It is the first hagfish recorded from a

hydrothermal vent A hydrothermal vent is a fissure on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hotspot ...

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Myxinidae Fish described in 2007 {{jawless-fish-stub