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Agnatha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agnatha (Greek, "no jaws") is a class or superclass of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata. The group excludes all vertebrates with jaws, known as gnathostomes. The agnathans as...
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The first fish evolved as many as 700 million years ago. They were jellyfish. These creatures didn't have brains, mouths, or spines. Then, some 500 million years ago, jawless fish were formed. These included lampreys and hagfishes that had backbones and brains but did not have jaws.
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Jawless fish - Definition of Jawless fish at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Jawless fish. Look it up now! ... Any of various primitive fish of the class Agnatha that lack jaws. Living jawless fish (lampreys and hagfish) have a long, cylindrical body and a...
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Jawless Fish, Chapter 27 ... Class Myxini (hagfish) - entirely marine, feed mostly on dead fish, worms, molluscs and crustaceans, therefore are mostly scavengers rather than parasites like lampreys. ... When attached to the host fish, sea lampreys rasp away the flesh and such out body fluids, injecting an anticoagulant into...
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Jawless fish are the most primitive of all fishes. They have no jaws, scales, nor paired fins. ... There are only two species of jawless fishes still alive today. They include the lamprey and the hagfish. Lamprey: ; ... Home Page | Jawless Fish | Cartilaginous Fish | Bony Fish;
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