Myxini (Hagfish)

Myxini (Hagfish)

Although hagfish are sometimes called “slime eels,” they are not eels at all. Myxini is the only class in the clade Craniata that does not also belong to the subphylum Vertebrata.

The hagfish is a more primitive fish than the bony or cartilaginous fish. The hagfish is known as the sea’s most disgusting creature, due to it’s ability to produce buckets of slime in a couple minutes as an escape mechanism.