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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]
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 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.
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 .
White Rock Lake is a reservoir located in northeast Dallas, Texas, United States. The lake was formed by damming White Rock Creek , which today widens into the lake before continuing south out of the spillway and emptying into the Trinity River . [ 1 ]
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]
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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 ...