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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Fishes > Hagfishes
... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Chordata, Nonvertebrate > Hyperotreti > Hagfishes
... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Chordata, Nonvertebrate > Hyperotreti > Hagfishes

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Hagfishes  

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Entry terms

  • Hagfish
  • Hagfishs

Scope note

  • Common name for a family of eel-shaped jawless fishes (Myxinidae), the only family in the order MYXINIFORMES. They are not true vertebrates.

History note

  • 2002 (1975)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006196

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