jawless fish

(-lis)

any of a class (Agnatha) of fishes with a cartilaginous skeleton, an eel-like body, and a circular, sucking mouth lacking jaws, consisting of the lampreys and hagfishes

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noun
Any of several eellike marine and freshwater fishes lacking a jaw and paired appendages that constitute the subphylum Agnatha. The only present-day jawless fish are the hagfish and lampreys.

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