Hagfish
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hagfish-166-8649485
title:
Hagfish
text:
Hagfish, of the class Myxini and order Myxiniformes, are eel-shaped jawless fish. Hagfish are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, although they do have rudimentary vertebrae. Hagfish are marine predators and scavengers who can defend themselves against other larger predators by releasing copious amounts of slime from mucous glands in their skin. Although their exact relationship to the only other living group of jawless fish, the lampreys, was long the subjec
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Family of eel-shaped, slime-producing animal
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish
date created:
2002-08-29T19:04:14Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T21:15:13Z
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