Myxine De Girard

Copulatory organ absent. The gonads of hagfishes are situated in the peritoneal cavity. The ovary is found in the anterior portion of the gonad, and the testis is found in the posterior part. The animal becomes female if the cranial part of the gonad develops or male if the caudal part undergoes differentiation. If none develops, then the animal becomes sterile. If both anterior and posterior parts develop, then the animal becomes a functional hermaphrodite. However, hermaphroditism being characterised as functional needs to be validated by more reproduction studies (Ref. 51361 ).

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Myxine limosa, or Girard's Atlantic hagfish, is a jawless fish in the genus Myxine. The species was described by Charles Frédéric Girard, a French zoologist, in 1859. It occurs in deep waters of the Western Atlantic Ocean, from the western coast of Greenland down to the Gulf of Mexico.