Author: Linnaeus, 1758
FBname: Atlantic hagfish
Comments: Benthic with reported depths to 782 off Greenland; 960 m in Northwestern Atlantic; and 1,100 m off Norway (Ref. 119696). Found on muddy bottoms where they hide in the mud.  Slime is used for defense.  Feeds chiefly on dead and dying fish of varying species by boring into the body and consuming viscera and musculature.  Chiefly nocturnal.  Its eggs are few in number about 19-30 and large (20-25 mm), the horny shell has a cluster of anchor-tipped filaments at each end.