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cy·clo·stome

C0837300 (sī′klə-stōm′)n. Any of various fishes lacking jaws and true teeth and having a circular sucking mouth, including the hagfishes and the lampreys.

[From New Latin Cyclostomī and Cyclostomata, class names : cyclo- + Greek stoma, stomat-, mouth.]

cy·clos′to·mate′ (sī-klŏs′tə-māt′, -mĭt) adj.

cyclostome

(ˈsaɪkləˌstəʊm; ˈsɪk-) n (Animals) any primitive aquatic jawless vertebrate of the class Cyclostomata, such as the lamprey and hagfish, having a round sucking mouth and pouchlike gillsadj (Plants) of, relating to, or belonging to the class Cyclostomata Also called: marsipobranch cyclostomate, cyclostomatous, cyclostomous adj

jaw′less fish`

n. 1. Also called cyclostome. any fish of the class Agnatha (and order Cyclostomata), characterized by a circular sucking mouth that lacks jaws. 2. ostracoderm. [1965–70]

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cyclostome - primitive aquatic vertebrate agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate - eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct formsCyclostomata, order Cyclostomata - primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate: lampreys; hagfishes

cyclostome

(sī`kləstōm'), jawless fish, member of the vertebrate superclass Cyclostomata (see ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. ). This group includes the hagfishhagfish,
primitive, jawless marine fish of the family Myxinidae, of worldwide distribution in cold and temperate waters. Its rudimentary skeleton, of cartilage rather than bone, has a braincase, but no jaw. The circular sucking mouth has rows of horny teeth.
..... Click the link for more information. and the lampreylamprey,
name for several primitive marine and freshwater jawless fishes of the order Petromyzontiformes. As in the other jawless fish, the hagfish, the adult lamprey retains the notochord, the supporting structure that in higher vertebrates is found only in the embryo.
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