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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Song YS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7170979 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ZooKeys 20200413
Four specimens of the five-gilled white mid-dorsal line hagfish, <i>Eptatretus wandoensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> were recently collected from the southwestern Sea of Korea (Wando). This new species has five pairs of gill apertures, 14-18 prebranchial slime pores, 4 branchial slime pores, a dark brown back with a white mid-dorsal line and a white belly. These hagfish are similar to <i>Eptatretus burgeri</i> and <i>Eptatretus minor</i> in having a white mid-dorsal line, but can be readily distinguish ...[more]