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Myxine formosana, a new species of hagfish (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae) from the southwestern waters of Taiwan

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Myxine formosana, a new hagfish species, is described on the basis of the specimens from the Pacific Ocean southwest of Taiwan at depths 588–1500 m. It is five-gilled and white-headed with a three-cusp multicusp on the anterior set of cusps and a two-cusp multicusp on the posterior set. Myxine formosana, M. circifrons, M. mccoskeri, and M. robinsi are superficially rather similar, but M. formosana has low to vestigal caudal finfolds. It is the first record of the genus Myxine from Taiwan.

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  1. Institute of Marine Biology, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (e-mail: hinkiu@mail.nsysu.edu.tw), , , , , , TW

    Hin-Kiu Mok

  2. Department of Biology, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (e-mail: hagkuo@gate.sinica.edu.tw), , , , , , TW

    Chien-Hsien Kuo

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Received: October 25, 2000 / Revised: March 17, 2001 / Accepted: April 21, 2001

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Mok, HK., Kuo, CH. Myxine formosana, a new species of hagfish (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae) from the southwestern waters of Taiwan. Ichthyol Res 48, 295–297 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-001-8149-y

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