Monday, October 26, 2009

Jawless Fish

Today we discusses jawless fish. Jawless fish are primitive fish with a notochord instead of a backbone and a flat rasping mouth that cannot close like ours. As a result thes fish cannot bite... only scrape and hold on.

Pictured to the right, you can see five lamprey mouths and one lamprey head with blue eyes and seven gill holes.

Jawless fish include lampreys which are parasites and hagfish which are detritavores. Neither one will ever win a beauty contest.
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3 comments:

chrissy said...

If you can get uTube at school you should check out some of the awesome Hagfish videos they have. There is a really good one showing the knot they can tie and the slime they produce. =D

Also, in Blue Planet there is the section on the whale fall...they show hagfish there too...AMAZING!

October 26, 2009 at 10:12 PM
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