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Hagfish have no true fins and have six or eight barbels around the mouth and a single nostril. Instead of vertically articulating jaws like Gnathostomata ( vertebrates with jaws), they have a pair of horizontally moving structures with tooth-like projections for pulling off food.
The outer layer of a hagfish’s skin acts as an ideal surface for creating knots with low friction. By having no paired fins along the body, as seen in more derived fishes, the body plan is free to create knots with no appendages obstructing the knot. [21] Hagfish can tie their bodies into overhand, figure eight, and several other higher order ...
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]
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.
Southern hagfish (Myxine australis) mid-19th century drawing by Günther. Myxine / m ɪ k ˈ s aɪ n iː / is a genus of hagfish, from the Greek μυξῖνος (myxinos, "slimy").It is the type genus of the class Myxini.
Cyclostomi, often referred to as Cyclostomata / s ɪ k l oʊ ˈ s t ɒ m ə t ə /, is a group of vertebrates that comprises the living jawless fishes: the lampreys and hagfishes.Both groups have jawless mouths with horny epidermal structures that function as teeth called ceratodontes, and branchial arches that are internally positioned instead of external as in the related jawed fishes. [1]
Sep. 13—The hagfish, a primitive fish that looks like an eel and scavenges off the ocean floor, dwells in cold, deep waters around the world—but not in Hawaii. Yet, for years, thousands upon ...
Eptatretus cirrhatus has an eel-like body with no dorsal fin, a paddle-like tail and are often a grey-brown with a pink or bluish tinge of colour. [4] As with all other hagfish, the New Zealand hagfish has a skull but no jaw or true vertebral column, it instead has a skeleton made up of cartilage. [5]