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hagfish eat dead fish, including whale carcasses
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What is a hagfish?
Hagfish are scavengers. They eat dead fish or other dead or dying sea organisms.
Is a Hagfish a fish?
No, they are jawless fish.
What is an example of an jaw less fish?
Hagfish and lampreys.
Do Cyclostomata lamprey eels and hagfish feed on other fish or invertebrates?
Hagfish and lampreys are apart of Agnatha which means jawless fish. Hagfish are a parasite fish but can be free swimming. Both jawless fish will feed on carcasses on the bottom of the seafloor.
Is a hagfish a cartilaginous fish?
Hagfish are cartilaginous, meaning their skeletons are made from cartilage. FALSE what the person just wrote is wrong. Hagfish are neither cartilaginous or bony fish. Although they have cartilage in their bodies, they belong to a third category called Jawless fish. Jawless, cartilaginous, and bony are the 3 types of fish.
Which fish or animal did the fangtooth fish evolve from?
the hagfish.
Does the penguin eat other than fish?
Technically, all fish that are not cartilaginous (sharks and rays) or jawless (lampreys, hagfish, etc) are considered bony fish. Thus, all of the fish that penguins eat are considered bony fish.
How do hag fish move?
hagfish swim
Other fish similar to hag fish?
From what I can find out there is absolutely nothing else in the world that is similar to a Hagfish. Check out this link :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish
An invertebrate chordate with a bladelike shape that resembles a fish?
This would seem to describe the hagfish and lampreys. The description fails by saying that they resemble fish. Hagfish and lampreys are classified as jawless fish. They are fish, none-the-less.
Do people eat hagfish?
yes
Are hagfish poisonous?
No, but they could suffocate fish with their slime.
