E7: New Species— of slime producing Hagfishes, including the “ghost” hagfish, from the Galapagos Islands!

Dr. Doug Fudge, an Associate Professor in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University where he heads the Comparative Biomaterials Lab, is our guest for this episode. He talks to us about his paper available as early access in the journal the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Dr. Fudge explains how to find and catch hagfish the important ecological roles of hagfishes, how they produce buckets—yes, buckets!—of slime!

The title of the paper is “Review of the hagfishes (Myxinidae) from the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of four new species and their phylogenetic relationships.” The paper by contacting Dr. Fudge, or by purchasing it from here: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa178/6125275?redirectedFrom=fulltext

To learn more about Dr. Fudge, follow him on Twitter @DouglasFudge, visit his webpage at https://sites.chapman.edu/fudge/ .