hagfishes in English

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a primitive jawless marine vertebrate distantly related to the lampreys, with a slimy eellike body, a slitlike mouth surrounded by barbels, and a rasping tongue used for feeding on dead or dying fish.
In contrast, the vertebrate insulin gene became a metabolic regulatory action of insulin early during vertebrate evolution since insulin regulates glucose homeostasis even in hagfishes and lampreys.
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1. One of these primitive, jawless Craniates is a group called the hagfishes, which represent the class Myxini

2. Agnatha - superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms superclass Agnatha Craniata,

3. Agnathan, (superclass Agnatha), any member of the group of primitive jawless fishes that includes the lampreys (order Petromyzoniformes), hagfishes (order Myxiniformes), and several extinct groups.

4. Agnatha: 1 n superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms Synonyms: superclass Agnatha Type of: class (biology) a …

5. In skeleton: General features Paired Appendages are not found in ancestral vertebrates and are not present in the modern cyclostomes (e.g., lampreys, hagfishes)

6. Craniates, myxini (hagfishes) jawless (agnathans), marine, bottom scavengers, lack bone (cartilage skeleton), notochord is main axial support, lacks vertebrae, lack scales and paired fins, possess slime gland

7. Superclass Agnatha is made up of living and extinct forms. In older classifications, extant forms—that is, the lampreys and hagfishes— were grouped together as Cyclostomata (round mouth)

8. Other articles where Appendage is discussed: skeleton: General features: Paired Appendages are not found in ancestral vertebrates and are not present in the modern cyclostomes (e.g., lampreys, hagfishes)