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What does hagfish mean?

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Noun
  1. Any of several primitive eellike fish, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth, and sometimes used as food or for eelskin leather.
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To date, the question of luteal-like structures in lampreys and hagfish is unresolved.
Litman next plans to look for novel immune genes in jawless vertebrates, such as lamprey and hagfish.
In traditional classifications, the hagfish, lampreys, and extinct armored jawless fish are grouped together in the paraphyletic Class Agnatha.
These data from our studies suggest a seasonal reproductive cycle in the Atlantic hagfish.
Apparently living at great depths with the hagfish, the prehistoric ratfish was recently discovered off Brazil by scientists.
Traditional methods of population assessment used by the fisheries industry cannot be applied to the hagfish.

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