hagfish|hagfishes in English

noun

jawless marine fish that looks like an eel

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1. The Pacific Ocean Hagfish has a disgusting way of defending itself.

2. Agnatha are jawless fish. Lampreys and hagfish are in this class

3. They're kind of like eels or hagfish or lampreys, but different.

4. The hagfish also represents an important evolutionary step in the development of vision.

5. One of these primitive, jawless Craniates is a group called the hagfishes, which represent the class Myxini

6. Koi, along with catfish, goatfish, hagfish, sturgeon, zebrafish, some species of shark and other carp, have Barbels

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

8. 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.

9. Craniates (Craniata) are a group of chordates that includes hagfish, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates such as amphibians, birds, reptiles, mammals, and fishes

10. 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 …

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

12. The brain of the Agnatha, especially of the hagfish, is discussed from the viewpoint of the telencephalon and the olfactory, visual, trigeminal, and vestibulolateral sensory systems

13. 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

14. 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)

15. 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)

16. In the most primitive vertebrates, the hagfish and lampreys, the kidney is unusually simple: it consists of a row of nephrons, each emptying directly into the archinephric duct.

17. If We Can Get Past the Ickiness, Hagfish Slime May Actually Be Useful to Us The gelatinous glop could be the key to everything from bio-inspired kevlar to shark defense for divers

18. The microscopy studies of the Aortae of the lobster, horseshoe crab and whelk revealed tissue structures which differ widely from each other as well as from the structures of the lamprey and hagfish.

19. ‘Thus, there exist two competing theories about the interrelationships of Craniates, i.e., animals with a skull.’ ‘Unfortunately, there are few quantitative data on the relative sizes of major brain divisions in most Craniates.’ ‘Hagfish are the oldest lineage of Craniates and thus are …

20. Given our current understanding of craniate phylogeny, the observation of programmed genome reorganization in both lamprey and hagfish could be considered evidence that chromatin diminution was characteristic of the common ancestor of all Craniates, or of a basal taxon with a genome biology that was otherwise very similar to the craniate ancestor.