#jawless_vertebrate__jawlessvertebrate__jawless_fish__jawlessfish__agnathan eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
supertype: #aquatic_vertebrate__aquaticvertebrate animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water
member of: #superclass_Agnatha
subtype: #ostracoderm extinct fishlike jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic
subtype: #heterostracan extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian
subtype: #osteostracan__cephalaspid extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head
subtype: #anaspid extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian
subtype: #conodont small (2 in) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes
subtype: #cyclostome primitive aquatic vertebrate
subtype: #lamprey_eel__lampreyeel__lamprey__lamper_eel primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
subtype: #sea_lamprey__sealamprey__Petromyzon_marinus large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes
subtype: #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
subtype: #Myxine_glutinosa typical hagfish
subtype: #eptatretus a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
subtype: #Myxinikela_siroka fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes
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