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Myxinikela siroka

DEFINITIONS OF: Myxinikela siroka

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n fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes

Type of:
hag, hagfish, slime eels
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
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