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hagfish

[′hag‚fish]
(vertebrate zoology)
The common name for the jawless fishes composing the order Myxinoidea.
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Eptatretus menezesi, a new species of hagfish (Agnatha, Myxinidae) from Brazil.
nov., a new species of five-gilled hagfish (Myxinidae) from the Galapagos Islands.
First record of the hagfish Eptatretus multidens Fernholm & Hubbs, 1981 (Myxinidae) in Brazilian waters.
A new species of giant seven-gilled hagfish (Myxinidae: Eptatretus) from New Zealand.
Two new species of Eptatretus and Quadratus (Myxinidae, Myxiniformes) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
Myxine jespersenae, a new species of hagfish (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae) from the North Atlantic Ocean.
Descriptions of two new subfamilies and a new genus of hagfishes (Cyclostomata: Myxinidae).
A new species of hagfish, genus Eptatretus (Cyclostomata, Myxinidae), from the Pacific Ocean near Valparaiso, Chile, with new data on E.
Three new species of hagfishes, genus Eptatretus (Cyclostomata, Myxinidae), from the Pacific Coast of North America, with new data on E.
Eptatretus strickrotti n. sp. (Myxinidae): first hagfish captured from a hydrothermal vent
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