Wadge Bank hagfish
📖 Overview
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🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
This six-gilled species is distinguished by the following characters: with 3/3 multicusp pattern, 9-10 anterior unicusps, and 7-8 posterior unicusps; posterior tip of the dental muscle reaching up to the mid-region of 2nd gill pouch; total cusps 44-48; total pores 67-69 (prebranchial 12-13, branchial 6, trunk 39-40, and tail 8-11). Colouration: uniformly brown on the dorsal and ventral region when fresh and dark brown when preserved in formalin .
🌀 Behaviour
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🦐 Diet
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🥚 Reproduction
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🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; demersal; depth range 250 - 300 m . Tropical Indian Ocean: Lakshadweep Sea, India.
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🔍 Similar Species
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