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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]
Myxine glutinosa var. limosa Putnam, 1874. Myxine glutinosa var. australis Putnam, 1874. Myzinus glutinosus (Linnaeus, 1758) Petromyzon myxine Walbaum, 1792. Myxine glutinosa, known as the Atlantic hagfish in North America, and often simply as the hagfish in Europe, is a species of jawless fish of the genus Myxine.
Pacific hagfish. 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 fish and has a body plan that resembles early Paleozoic fish. They are able to excrete prodigious amounts of slime in self-defense.
Eptatretus deani. 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. [4][5][6] Although hagfish are sometimes called ...
Rubicundus lopheliae, the lophelia hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. [2][3][4] It was originally classified in the genus Eptatretus, but a 2013 analysis reclassified into the new genus Rubicundus, considered the most basal genus of hagfish. [5] This is the only member of Rubicundus known from more than one specimen.
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Rubicundus lakeside, the Lakeside hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. [2] It was originally classified in the genus Eptatretus, but a 2013 analysis reclassified into the new genus Rubicundus, considered the most basal genus of hagfish. The specific epithet lakeside honors the Lakeside Foundation of California for ...
The white-headed hagfish may grow up to 57 centimetres (1.87 ft) long. [5] It is a seven-gilled hagfish; it can be distinguished from related species by its large number of tooth cusps: between 44 and 51. [9] The Irish M. ios population is distinguished from the southern variety by its white head and whitish middorsal or midventral line. [10]