Hagfish, of the class Myxini /mɪkˈsaɪnaɪ/ (also known as Hyperotreti) and order Myxiniformes /mɪkˈsɪnɪfɔːrmiːz/, are eel-shaped jawless fish (occasionally...

The Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii) is a species of hagfish. It lives in the mesopelagic to abyssal Pacific Ocean, near the ocean floor. It is a jawless...

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...

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groups still survive today: the lampreys and the hagfish, comprising about 120 species in total. Hagfish are considered members of the subphylum Vertebrata...

Myxine glutinosa, known as the Atlantic hagfish in North America, and often simply as the hagfish in Europe, is a species of jawless fish of the genus...

Agnatha or jawless fish, which include: †Conodonta †Ostracodermi Cyclostomi (hagfish and lampreys) Gnathostomata or jawed vertebrates, which include: †Placodermi...

vertebrates; 100+ species) Class Cyclostomata Infraclass Myxinoidea or Myxini (hagfish; 65 species) Infraclass Petromyzontida or Hyperoartia (lampreys) Class...

Myxine circifrons, the whiteface hagfish, is a marine bathydemersal species of fish in the family Myxinidae. It is found off Southern California, Peru...

The southern hagfish (Myxine australis) is a hagfish of the genus Myxine. It is a harmless scaleless, eel-like animal with a pinkish body, a whitish head...

The broadgilled hagfish or New Zealand hagfish (Eptatretus cirrhatus), also known by its Māori language name tuere, is a hagfish found around New Zealand...

lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than they are to the hagfish. The "cyclostome hypothesis", on the other hand, holds that lampreys and...

Eptatretus polytrema, the fourteen-gill hagfish or Chilean hagfish, is a demersal and non-migratory hagfish of the genus Eptatretus. It is found in muddy...

genus of hagfish. There are currently 49 recognized species in this genus: Eptatretus aceroi Polanco Fernández & Fernholm, 2014 (Acero's hagfish) Eptatretus...

The white-headed hagfish (Myxine ios) is a species of jawless fish of the family Myxinidae (hagfish). Its scientific name alludes to the Institute of Oceanographic...

Rubicundus lopheliae, the lophelia hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. It was originally classified in the genus Eptatretus...

Eptatretus deani, the black hagfish, is a species of hagfish. Common to other species of hagfish, their unusual feeding habits and slime-producing capabilities...

Rubicundus lakeside, the Lakeside hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. It was originally classified in the genus Eptatretus...

Strickrott's hagfish, is a hagfish of the genus Eptatretus, found in the depths of the Pacific Ocean south of Easter Island. The hagfish was found in...

species of bony fish, over 1,100 species of cartilaginous fish, and over 100 hagfish and lampreys. A third of these fall within the nine largest families; from...

Myxine affinis, the Patagonian hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. It inhabits relatively shallow waters off the coast of Tierra...

Myxine /mɪkˈsaɪniː/ is a genus of hagfish, from the Greek μυξῖνος (myxinos, "slimy"). It is the type genus of the class Myxini. In 2021, three new species...

Rubicundus eos (Fernholm, 1991) (pink hagfish) Rubicundus lakeside (Mincarone & J. E. McCosker, 2004) (Lakeside hagfish) Rubicundus lopheliae (Fernholm &...

absent in protochordates in which there is a simple pineal homologue. The hagfish, considered as a primitive vertebrate, has a rudimentary structure regarded...

Myxine limosa, or Girard's Atlantic hagfish, is a jawless fish in the genus Myxine. The species was described by Charles Frédéric Girard, a French zoologist...

Nemamyxine elongata, the bootlace hagfish, is a species of hagfish in the genus Nemamyxine. Distribution, abundance, and natural history are not known...

Nemamyxine kreffti, also known as Krefft's hagfish, is a species of fish in the hagfish family Myxinidae. It is found in the south-western Atlantic Ocean...

Myxine capensis, the Cape hagfish, is a species of jawless fish in the family Myxinidae. It inhabits muddy bottoms on the continental shelf off the coast...

and hagfish are vertebrates that deviate from this trend. The vestibular systems of lampreys contain two semicircular canals while those of hagfish contain...

Eptatretus springeri, the Gulf hagfish, is a bathydemersal vertebrate which lives primarily in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. It has been observed feeding...