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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]
The discovery and classification of this species has helped further the understanding of hagfish biology as a whole. Previously, hagfish were thought to be bottom dwellers, burrowing into the substrate for protection. However, the finding of these hagfish in reefs offers new evidence that hagfish are able to find protection in other environments.
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 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 .
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 hexatrema, the sixgill hagfish, or snotslang is a species of marine fish in the hagfish family ... Depth range 10 – 400 m, usually found between 10 and ...
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.