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Myxine mcmillanae, the Caribbean hagfish, is a species of hagfish. [1] It is a scaleless, eel-like fish found in Caribbean waters that feeds off material from the surface that drifts down. It is rarely seen as it lives in very deep water from 2,300-4,950 ft (700-1,500 m) and likes to burrow into the mud.
Hagfish, of the class Myxini / m ɪ k ˈ s aɪ n aɪ / (also known as Hyperotreti) and order Myxiniformes / m ɪ k ˈ s ɪ n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /, are eel-shaped jawless fish (occasionally called slime eels). Hagfish are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, although they do have rudimentary vertebrae. [3]
Eptatretus springeri, the Gulf hagfish, [3] is a bathy demersal vertebrate which lives primarily in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. [4] It has been observed feeding at and around brine pools : areas of high salinity which resemble lakes on the ocean floor that do not mix with the surrounding water due to difference in density .
The Atlantic hagfish may grow up to .75 metres (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) long, with no eyes and no jaws; its star-shaped mouth is surrounded by 6 mouth barbels. [3] Their eyes also lack a lens and pigment (features found in the eyes of all other living vertebrates. [4] There is a single gill slit on each side of the eel-like body. [3]
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Eptatretus deani, the black hagfish, is a species of hagfish. Common to other species of hagfish, their unusual feeding habits and slime -producing capabilities have led members of the scientific and popular media to dub the hagfish as the most "disgusting" of all sea creatures.
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