Hagfish, of the class Myxini /mɪkˈsaɪnaɪ/ (also known as Hyperotreti) and order Myxiniformes /mɪkˈsɪnɪfɔːrmiːz/, are eel-shaped jawless fish (occasionally...
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The Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) is a species of hagfish. It lives in the mesopelagic to abyssal Pacific Ocean, near the ocean floor. It is a jawless...
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Hagfish were an American rock band originated in Sherman, Texas that rose to notoriety via performances in the Deep Ellum district of Dallas, Texas, drawing...
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the Cambrian. Living jawless fish comprise about 120 species in total. Hagfish are considered members of the subphylum Vertebrata, because they secondarily...
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The inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri) is a hagfish found in the Northwest Pacific, from the Sea of Japan and across eastern Japan to Taiwan. It has...
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Myxine glutinosa (redirect from Atlantic hagfish)
glutinosa, also known as the Atlantic hagfish, is a type of jawless fish belonging to the class Myxini. . The Atlantic hagfish may grow up to .75 metres (2+1⁄2 ft)...
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the hagfish, which do not have proper vertebrae due to their loss in evolution, though their closest living relatives, the lampreys, do. Hagfish do, however...
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The broadgilled hagfish or New Zealand hagfish (Eptatretus cirrhatus), also known by its Māori language name tuere, is a hagfish found around New Zealand...
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Rubicundus lopheliae (redirect from Lophelia hagfish)
Rubicundus lopheliae, the lophelia hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. It was originally classified in the genus Eptatretus...
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vertebrates; 100+ species) Class Cyclostomata Infraclass Myxinoidea or Myxini (hagfish; 65 species) Infraclass Petromyzontida or Hyperoartia (lampreys) Class...
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The southern hagfish (Myxine australis) is a hagfish of the genus Myxine. It is a harmless scaleless, eel-like animal with a pinkish body, a whitish head...
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Myxine circifrons (redirect from Whiteface hagfish)
Myxine circifrons, the whiteface hagfish, is a marine bathydemersal species of fish in the family Myxinidae. It is found off Southern California, Peru...
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Myxine /mɪkˈsaɪniː/ is a genus of hagfish, from the Greek μυξῖνος (myxinos, "slimy"). It is the type genus of the class Myxini. In 2021, three new species...
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Eptatretus polytrema (redirect from Chilean Hagfish)
Eptatretus polytrema, the fourteen-gill hagfish or Chilean hagfish, is a demersal and non-migratory hagfish of the genus Eptatretus. It is found in muddy...
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Eptatretus deani (redirect from Black hagfish)
Eptatretus deani, the black hagfish, is a species of hagfish. Common to other species of hagfish, their unusual feeding habits and slime-producing capabilities...
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genus of hagfish. There are currently 49 recognized species in this genus: Eptatretus aceroi Polanco Fernández & Fernholm, 2014 (Acero's hagfish) Eptatretus...
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Hagfish is the third and final studio album by the American rock band Hagfish, released in March 1998 on Honest Don's Records, a subsidiary label of Fat...
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Myxine capensis (redirect from Cape hagfish)
Myxine capensis, the Cape hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. It inhabits muddy bottoms on the continental shelf off the coast...
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Eptatretus goliath, the goliath hagfish, is the largest hagfish. It lives in the Southwest Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand. Mincarone, M.M...
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The white-headed hagfish (Myxine ios) is a species of jawless fish of the family Myxinidae (hagfish). Its scientific name alludes to the Institute of Oceanographic...
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Rubicundus lakeside (redirect from Lakeside hagfish)
Rubicundus lakeside, the Lakeside hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. It was originally classified in the genus Eptatretus...
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species of bony fish, over 1,100 species of cartilaginous fish, and over 100 hagfish and lampreys. A third of these fall within the nine largest families; from...
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Nemamyxine kreffti (redirect from Krefft's hagfish)
Nemamyxine kreffti, also known as Krefft's hagfish, is a species of fish in the hagfish family Myxinidae. It is found in the south-western Atlantic Ocean...
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Nemamyxine elongata (redirect from Bootlace hagfish)
Nemamyxine elongata, the bootlace hagfish, is a species of hagfish in the genus Nemamyxine. Distribution, abundance, and natural history are not known...
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lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than they are to the hagfish. The "cyclostome hypothesis", on the other hand, holds that lampreys and...
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Eptatretus springeri (redirect from Gulf Hagfish)
Eptatretus springeri, the Gulf hagfish, is a bathydemersal vertebrate which lives primarily in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. It has been observed feeding...
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Tethymyxine is an extinct genus of hagfish known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Lebanon. It contains a single species, Tethymyxine tapirostrum...
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Myxine mcmillanae (redirect from Caribbean Hagfish)
Myxine mcmillanae, the Caribbean hagfish, is a species of hagfish. It is a scaleless, eel-like fish found in Caribbean waters that feeds off material from...
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Myxine limosa (redirect from Girard's Atlantic hagfish)
Myxine limosa, or Girard's Atlantic hagfish, is a jawless fish in the genus Myxine. The eellike species grows up to 79 centimetres (31 in) long. The color...
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absent in protochordates in which there is a simple pineal homologue. The hagfish, considered as a primitive vertebrate, has a rudimentary structure regarded...
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