| NOUN | animal | family Myxinidae, Myxinidae | slime-producing marine animals |
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| Meaning | slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes. | |
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| Synonym | Myxinidae | |
| Member of | Cyclostomata, order Cyclostomata | Primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate |
| Members | Myxine, genus Myxine | type genus of the Myxinidae (typical hagfishes) |
| Myxinikela, genus Myxinikela | fossil hagfishes | |
| genus Eptatretus | A genus of fossil fish of the family Myxinidae | |
| hagfish, hag, slime eels | eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles | |
| Broader | fish family | Any of various families of fish |
| Catalan | Mixinoïdeu, Myxinidae | |
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