Myxine
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Myxine is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of hagfish
Hagfish
Hagfish, the clade Myxini , are eel-shaped slime-producing marine animals . They are the only living animals that have a skull but not a vertebral column. Along with lampreys, hagfish are jawless and are living fossils whose next nearest relatives include all vertebrates...

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Species

  • Myxine affinis Günther, 1870 (Patagonian hagfish)
  • Myxine australis Jenyns
    Leonard Blomefield
    Leonard Jenyns, later known as Leonard Blomefield was a clergyman-naturalist.He was the youngest son of George Leonard Jenyns and his wife Mary the daughter of Dr. William Heberden . The Jenyns lived on Bottisham Hall property which his father had inherited on the death of his cousin Soame Jenyns...

    , 1842
    (Southern hagfish)
  • Myxine capensis Regan, 1913 (Cape hagfish)
  • Myxine circifrons Garman, 1899 (Whiteface hagfish)
  • Myxine debueni Wisner & McMillan, 1995
  • Myxine dorsum Wisner & McMillan, 1995
  • Myxine fernholmi Wisner & McMillan, 1995
  • Myxine formosana H. K. Mok & C. H. Kuo, 2001
  • Myxine garmani D. S. Jordan
    David Starr Jordan
    David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...

     & Snyder
    John Otterbein Snyder
    John Otterbein Snyder was an American zoologist.As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoology instructor at Stanford University and served there from 1899 until 1943. He went on several major collecting expeditions aboard the USS Albatross...

    , 1901
  • Myxine glutinosa Linnaeus
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

    , 1758
    (Atlantic hagfish)
  • Myxine hubbsi Wisner & McMillan, 1995
  • Myxine hubbsoides Wisner & McMillan, 1995
  • Myxine ios Fernholm, 1981 (White-headed hagfish)
  • Myxine jespersenae Møller, Feld, Poulsen, Thomsen & Thormar, 2005 (Jespersen's hagfish)
  • Myxine knappi Wisner & McMillan, 1995)
  • Myxine kuoi H. K. Mok, 2002
  • Myxine limosa Girard
    Charles Frédéric Girard
    Charles Frédéric Girard was a French biologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology.Born in Mulhouse, France, he studied at the College of Neuchâtel, Switzerland as a student of Louis Agassiz. In 1847, he accompanied Agassiz as his assistant to Harvard...

    , 1859
  • Myxine mccoskeri Wisner & McMillan, 1995
  • Myxine mcmillanae Hensley, 1991
  • Myxine paucidens Regan, 1913
  • Myxine pequenoi Wisner & McMillan, 1995
  • Myxine robinsorum Wisner & McMillan, 1995
  • Myxine sotoi Mincarone, 2001
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