Google Share on Facebook hagfish (redirected fromhagfishes) Thesaurus Encyclopedia Related to hagfishes:chimaeras,Ostracoderms hag·fish (hăg′fĭsh′) n.pl.hagfishorhag·fish·es Any of various elongated slimy marine fishes of the class Myxini (family Myxinidae), lacking jaws and verteb...
Hagfish defend themselves from fish predators by producing large volumes of gill-clogging slime when they are attacked. The slime consists of seawater and two major components that are ejected from the slime glands: mucus and threads. The threads are produced within specialized cells and packaged ...
One hypothesis for the origin for the slime glands is that they arose via a process of invagination of the skin, with subsequent specialization of secretory cells of the epidermis into GTCs and the mucus-producing gland mucous cells (GMCs). Hagfish skin possesses unique cells called epidermal ...
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mucusHagfishes thwart attacks by fish predators by producing liters of defensive slime. The slime is produced when slime gland exudate is released into the predator's mouth, where it deploys in a fraction of a second and clogs the gills. Slime exudate is composed mainly of secretory products...
CONSTITUTION: A producing method of sea eel soup using the head and the skin of sea eel comprises the following steps: removing mucus from the skin of the live sea eel; peeling the skin from the sea eel, and removing the intestines; separately washing the skin and the flesh of the sea ...