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What are examples of agnatha?
Agnatha is a superclass of the phylum Chordata. It contains the jawless fish. Two common examples of this would be the lamprey and the hagfish.
Which class of fishes does a lamprey belong?
Lampreys are in the superclass Agnatha, jawless fish. They are of the class Cyclostomata, which includes hagfish, as opposed to the extinct Ostracoderms.
What is an example of an jaw less fish?
Hagfish and lampreys.
What are some jawless animals?
The lamprey the hagfish and the worm
Which of these comprise one of the two families of jawless fish that make up the superclass Agnatha?
Lamprey
What type of fish was the earliest to evolve?
lobe-finned fish
What are agnathas?
Agnathas are a class of jawless fish in the phylum chordata. The group includes species such as hagfish and lamprey.
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.
What are parasitic fish?
Lamprey, hagfish suck body fluids from the host fish after rasping a hole in the side of the body.
Give you some example of jawless fish?
Most fish are not jawless. There is a small group of very primitive fish called Jawless fish (Agnatha). However, they make up a very small proportion (<1%) of the fish species on earth. Jawless fish are things like lamprey and hagfish. All other fish, like trout, salmon, tuna, sharks, rays, cichlids, goldfish, etc, etc, have jaws. See the related link for more information on the primitive jawless fish.
Is there an animal in this hole world that has no bones?
Plenty! eg. sharks, lamprey, hagfish, worms, flat worms, sponges, snails, octopus.....
What is an agnathan?
An agnathan is a variety of jawless fish of the superclass Agnatha - of which two groups survive today - lampreys and hagfish - comprising around 120 species in all.
