Definition of Genus Myxine

1. Noun. Type genus of the Myxinidae (typical hagfishes).

Exact synonyms: Myxine
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Myxinidae, Myxinidae
Member holonyms: Myxine Glutinosa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Myxine

genus Myrica
genus Myricaria
genus Myriophyllum
genus Myristica
genus Myrmecia
genus Myrmecobius
genus Myrmecophaga
genus Myrmeleon
genus Myroxylon
genus Myrrhis
genus Myrsine
genus Myrtillocactus
genus Myrtus
genus Mysis
genus Mytilus
genus Myxine (current term)
genus Myxinikela
genus Myxocephalus
genus Nabalus
genus Naemorhedus
genus Nageia
genus Naias
genus Naja
genus Najas
genus Nanomia
genus Napaea
genus Narcissus
genus Narthecium
genus Nasalis
genus Nasturtium

Literary usage of Genus Myxine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... with the single genus Myxine (hag fishes, qv), in which the six pairs of gill pouches have a single common external opening on each side. ..."

2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"In the genus myxine (Linn.) 2 spiracles approximate on the lower surface behind the branchiae, each receiving the external ducts of the 6 branchiae of its ..."

3. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The genus Myxine contains low forms, which Linnaeus classed with worms. The Hag, M. limosa, Girard, is from six to eight inches long. ..."

4. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1885)
"The genus Myxine is exclusively parasitic on other fish and even makes its way into their body cavity, thus affording an example of an endoparasitic ..."

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