slime eels
Noun
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Eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles;
Feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies (synset 101481152)is a type of: agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate - eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct formssubtypes:- myxine glutinosa - typical hagfish
- eptatretus - a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
- myxinikela siroka - fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes
belongs to: family myxinidae, myxinidae - slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes
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