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单词 jawless vertebrate
释义
jawless vertebrate
(extremely rare)
n

WORD FAMILY
jawless vertebrate
n eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
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agnathan, jawless fish
ostracoderm
extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic
heterostracan
extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian
cephalaspid, osteostracan
extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head
anaspid
extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian
conodont
small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes
cyclostome
primitive aquatic vertebrate
lamper eel, lamprey, lamprey eel
primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
hag, hagfish, slime eels
eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
Petromyzon marinus, sea lamprey
large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes
Myxine glutinosa
typical hagfish
eptatretus
a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
Myxinikela siroka
fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes
aquatic vertebrate
animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water
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