hagfish

How To Use hagfish In A Sentence

• One form is lamprey like, whereas the other is closer to the more primitive hagfish.
• In addition to sequence length, differences between homeotherms and poikilotherms (hagfish, gray mullet, zebrafish, toad, and snake) occur at positions 373 and 400, respectively.
• Even sharks are closer cousins to humans than they are to lampreys and hagfish the only modern survivors of the once thriving and diverse group of jawless fishes but again, we call them all fish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• Agnathans generally have the smallest brains for their body size, with hagfishes having brains that are two to three times larger than lampreys of the same body size.
• This jawless mouth sets the lamprey and its cousin the hagfish apart from all other modern vertebrates - animals with backbones.
• Some are scavengers - hagfish, crustaceans, sharks - which devour much of the whale's flesh and tissue over the course of a few months.
• And as I demonstrated when I dropped one into the bucket, a hagfish can exude from its skin a substance so slimy and so plenteous it seems supernatural.
• It used to be thought that hagfish were vertebrates, but in fact these ‘fish’ have no backbone at all.
• These first vertebrates lacked jaws, like the living hagfish and lampreys.
• Looking at further opportunities within the industry, the minister pointed to underutilized species such as hagfish, cucumber fish, and different varieties of crab. The Beacon: News