Myxini

Translingual

Etymology

Plural of Myxine (“a genus of hagfish”)

Proper noun

Myxini

The hagfishes.
1. A taxonomic class within the subphylum Hyperotreti.
2. A taxonomic class within the infraphylum Agnatha.[1]

Synonyms

Hyperotreti

Hypernyms

(class in Agnatha): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Agnatha - subphylum

Hyponyms

(class): Myxiniformes - order; Myxinidae - family; Eptatretinae, Myxininae, Rubicundinae - subfamilies

References

Myxini on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Myxini on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Myxini on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Hyperotreti at the Tree of Life Web Project

Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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