Meaning | eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies. |
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Synonyms | hag, slime eels |
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Member of | Myxinidae, family Myxinidae | slime-producing marine animals |
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Narrower | Myxine glutinosa | typical hagfish |
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Myxinikela siroka | fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes |
eptatretus | A fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus |
Broader | jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan | eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws / jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms |
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Spanish | mixino, myxini |
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Catalan | mixinoïdeu |
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