Species Profile
Myxine glutinosa
Hagfish
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassCyclostomata
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Myxine glutinosa lives in marine environments.
It is burrowing and scavenging.
Considered the most primitive vertebrate.
Size & Structure
01
Elongated eel-like body
02
Slime-secreting glands
03
No jaws or paired fins
04
Single median nostril
Myxine glutinosa — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Brain present, reduced sense organs
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, single
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Branchial respiration through gill pouches
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (cartilaginous, skull present)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Scavenger of dead animals
Nutrient recycling
Maintains seabed cleanliness
Economic Importance
Used in leather industry
Research on primitive vertebrates
Marine biology studies