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Hagfish vs Lamprey - What's the difference?

hagfish | lamprey |

As nouns the difference between hagfish and lamprey

is that hagfish is any of several primitive eellike creatures, of the family myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth; considered edible in japan, their skin is used to make eelskin leather while lamprey is any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the petromyzontidae family, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.

hagfish

English

(wikipedia hagfish)

Noun

  • any of several primitive eellike creatures, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth; considered edible in Japan, their skin is used to make eelskin leather

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    lamprey

    English

    (wikipedia lamprey)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the Petromyzontidae family, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.

    • Derived terms

    * brook lamprey * European river lamprey * sea lamprey

    References

    * lamprey] in , volume VI, 1908 *