It is the type of the order Hyperotreta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken. Sag To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; ...
While the Atla ntic hagfish isn that attractive at first gla nee with its worm — like shape it has overcome all difficulties and survived for 300 million years,outliving dinosaurs.Even today the hagfish continues to populate the sea at vast depths. The slime produced by a hagfish is an ...
such as the amphipod which is transparent for camouflage (although it still provides an important food source for other, larger bathyal zone animals, such as jellyfish), or bottom-dwellers like the slimestar which sifts for organic matter amid the silt on the ocean floor. ...
Hagfish head: as a fellow cyclostome/agnathan, much like a lamprey but never forget the slime glands! Shark head. Big fat jaws; all the better to bite prey with! Lungfish (Protopterus) head showing the big crushing tooth plates (above). Sturgeon vertebrae: tweak some agnathan/shark bits...
Hagfish head: as a fellow cyclostome/agnathan, much like a lamprey but never forget the slime glands! Shark head. Big fat jaws; all the better to bite prey with! Lungfish (Protopterus) head showing the big crushing tooth plates (above). Sturgeon vertebrae: tweak some agnathan/shark bits...