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  2. Hagfish - Wikipedia

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    Hagfish can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus, from specialized slime glands. [5] When released in seawater, the slime expands to 10,000 times its original size in 0.4 seconds. [12] This slime that hagfish excrete has very thin fibers that make it more durable and retentive than the slime excreted by other animals. [13]

  3. Myxine glutinosa - Wikipedia

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    This slime is vital to the survival of the Atlantic hagfish, it can distract and affect predators’ respiratory system, reducing the force of squeezing into big food. And when the hagfish no longer need the slime, they will form the "body knot" to scrape off all the slime on the body from the head to the tail.

  4. Broadgilled hagfish - Wikipedia

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    Douglas Fudge, then head of the University of Guelph hagfish slime research team, stated that when dried, the fibres within the slime become like silk: very thin and strong. (Fudge is now at Chapman University.) "Hagfish slime is made up of two parts: mucus and tiny fibres, about 15cm long but only a micron wide."

  5. Mucus - Wikipedia

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    Mucus is an essential constituent of hagfish slime used to deter predators. [38] Mucus is produced by the endostyle in some tunicates and larval lampreys to help in filter feeding. See also

  6. Eptatretus deani - Wikipedia

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    Black hagfish produce copious amounts of slime as a defense mechanism. Deep-sea diving equipment is known to have been fouled by large amounts of hagfish slime near the bottom of the ocean, extruded by the eel-like fish when they are alarmed. The slime comprises mature thread cells, up to 10 cm (4 in) long that are coiled and thread-like. [13]

  7. Anti-predator adaptation - Wikipedia

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    The slime glands along the body of the hagfish secrete enormous amounts of mucus when it is provoked or stressed. The gelatinous slime has dramatic effects on the flow and viscosity of water, rapidly clogging the gills of any fish that attempt to capture hagfish; predators typically release the hagfish within seconds.

  8. Eptatretus springeri - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  9. Pacific hagfish - Wikipedia

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    Hagfish also only have one nostril, which is located above the mouth. [6] Pacific hagfish heads. Starting about one quarter of their body length from the front are 10–14 gill pores. [4] Hagfish have loosely fitted, slimy skins, and are notorious for their slime-production capability.