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By far, the largest part of their diet is polychaete worms, but because of their slow metabolism, hagfish may go for up to seven months without eating any food.
The Myxini are unique among living chordates in that they have a partial cranium (skull), but no vertebrae, and so they are not truly vertebrates.
Even though evidence of their truly basal position was known (Stensiö, 1968), the lack of fossils made it difficult for people who study fish evolution to accept that the Myxini could have evolved so long ago.
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Myxini, Sharks, Lizards, and Birds were used for example.
Lizards and birds share limbs with digits, suggesting their relationship to the exclusion of Myxini and Sharks.
If we consider an alternate tree, lets say one that has Myxini and Sharks together, it would require more assumptions (hypotheses) to explain the observed distribution of characters.
www2.biology.ualberta.ca /jackson.hp/224/lecture.03.txt   (310 words)

  
 Myxini - Medicow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Introduction to the Myxini The adjective which best describes the Myxini is Lovecraftian Hagfish are long, slender and pinkish, and are best known for the large quantities of sticky slime which they produce.
Introduction to the Myxini  · cached · UCMP Berkeley's introduction to the hagfish.
Subphylum Myxini - Classification - Systema Naturae 2000
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 Science - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Animalia - Chordata - Fish - Hagfish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Eel-like invertebrate craniates of the Class Myxini, formerly considered to be in Class Agnatha (jawless fish) along with Lampreys.
Introduction to the Myxini - UCMP Berkeley's introduction to the hagfish.
OceanInfo - Hagfish - An illustrated introduction to the Myxini.
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Super-class Agnatha From the Greek a, meaning “not”, and gnathos, meaning “jaw”, the 60 known species of this super-class are known as the jawless fishes and include the hagfishes (Myxini) and lampreys (Cephalaspidomorphi).
Class - Myxini Hagfishes are entirely a marine group, feeding on dead or dying fish, annelids, mollusks, and crustaceans.
Today, four classes are recognized: Myxini, the jawless hagfishes, and Cephalaspidomorphi, the lampreys, are the most primitive; Chondrichthyes - the sharks, skates and rays — are a successful group with cartilaginous skeletons; And, Osteichthyes, the bony fishes, with its two relic groups and extremely diverse ray-finned group contains all those familiar freshwater and marine species.
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 Ichthyology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The only the caudal fin is present in fishes of the class Myxini.
Hagfish are notorious for the excessive amounts of mucous they produce in self defense.The mucous-producing glands are unique among fishes.
The class Myxini contains a single order Myxiniformes, which contains the single family Myxinidae.
www.unity.edu /sari/2002/hgiddings/hagfish.html   (261 words)

  
 Hagfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Punk Rock band, see Hagfish (band).
A hagfish is a marine chordate of the class Myxini, also known as Hyperotreti.
Despite their name, there is some debate about whether they are strictly fish (as there is for lampreys), since they belong to a much more primitive lineage than any other group that is commonly defined fish (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Myxini   (787 words)

  
 Hagfish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A hagfish is any of several marine chordates of the class Myxini also known as Hyperotreti.
They are long vermiform and exude sticky slime (from which the typical species Myxine glutinosa was named).
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