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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]
Close-Up of Nostrils of Lophelia Hagfish [2] Though not much is known about reproduction in this specific species, there is some description of reproduction in hagfish as a genus. At first, these fish were considered hermaphrodites, then dioecious, and it was not until more recently that they were found to develop specific gonads as juveniles ...
Myxine mcmillanae, the Caribbean hagfish, is a species of hagfish. [1] It is a scaleless, eel-like fish found in Caribbean waters that feeds off material from the surface that drifts down. It is rarely seen as it lives in very deep water from 2,300-4,950 ft (700-1,500 m) and likes to burrow into the mud.
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.
The inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri) is a hagfish found in the Northwest Pacific, from the Sea of Japan and across eastern Japan to Taiwan. It has six pairs of gill pouches and gill apertures. [4] These hagfish are found in the sublittoral zone. They live usually buried in the bottom mud and migrate into deeper water to spawn.
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.
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 ...