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Suborder Myxinoidei (Noun)

Meaning

Hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys.

Classification

Nouns denoting animals.

Examples

  • The hagfishes belong to the suborder Myxinoidei, a group of eel-shaped fish with unique slime-producing abilities.
  • Lampreys and hagfishes both have a primitive vertebrate skull, but only hagfishes in the suborder Myxinoidei lack vertebral bodies.
  • Some biologists place hagfishes and lampreys together in a group called Cyclostomata, but most researchers agree that hagfishes belong in a distinct suborder Myxinoidei.
  • Fossil evidence indicates that hagfishes of the suborder Myxinoidei evolved significantly earlier than the earliest lamprey species.
  • Scientists differentiate hagfishes from lampreys primarily on the basis of skeletal anatomy and systematics within the suborder Myxinoidei.

Synonyms

  • Myxiniformes
  • Suborder Myxiniformes
  • Suborder Hyperotreta
  • Myxinoidei
  • Myxinoidea
  • Hyperotreta

Hypernyms

  • Animal Order
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