Myxini
Myxini or hagfish are a bizarre and rather repulsive class of animals that can be found in most of HE's saline bodies of water. The largest of our timeline reaches about one and a half metres, whilst the smallest only grow to around 18 centimetres.
In the oceans of DW, Myxini are also present. For the most part, they are almost exactly the same as our hagfish, relatively small scavengers that feast on carcasses on the seafloor in the abyssal zone, sharing the same vermiform body, slime-exuding techniques and 'knotting' behaviour to escape from some predators that reach them, such as large fish and molluscs. They possess the same strong sense of smell and weak eyesight as those of Home Earth and the same sluggish metabolism.
Most hagfish belong in the genuses p-Eptatretus or p-Myxine and grow to the limits previously mentioned. There is one exception.
Magnomyxini
Containing only one known species, but suspected to have more, as yet undiscovered ones, Magnomyxini contains the largest hagfish ever known to grace, or befoul, the face of the Earth.
Y Ddraig Goch (Magnomyxine demens)
Found within the deepest chasms, this very newly discovered monster was seen feeding off a carcass which appeared to be that of a Thalattosaur, but the creature had destroyed much of the evidence. Capable of growing over 6 metres in length, and with jaws that can gnaw through bone, much research is going into finding out more about this elusive beast. Bizarrely for the normally pale hagfish, it is a deep incarnadine red, giving rise to its rather fearsome name. Also known as the Chasmslicker due to its speed and habitat, its very appearance caused severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to the two crew members of the submersible DWE-DS-13 as it smacked into the bathysphere, apparently not noticing it in its hunt for food. The sight of 'the big red serpent' appearing out of the darkness exacerbated the cabin fever they had been suffering, and both became terrified of anything that looked remotely serpentine until after severe therapy.
In the oceans of DW, Myxini are also present. For the most part, they are almost exactly the same as our hagfish, relatively small scavengers that feast on carcasses on the seafloor in the abyssal zone, sharing the same vermiform body, slime-exuding techniques and 'knotting' behaviour to escape from some predators that reach them, such as large fish and molluscs. They possess the same strong sense of smell and weak eyesight as those of Home Earth and the same sluggish metabolism.
Most hagfish belong in the genuses p-Eptatretus or p-Myxine and grow to the limits previously mentioned. There is one exception.
Magnomyxini
Containing only one known species, but suspected to have more, as yet undiscovered ones, Magnomyxini contains the largest hagfish ever known to grace, or befoul, the face of the Earth.
Y Ddraig Goch (Magnomyxine demens)
Found within the deepest chasms, this very newly discovered monster was seen feeding off a carcass which appeared to be that of a Thalattosaur, but the creature had destroyed much of the evidence. Capable of growing over 6 metres in length, and with jaws that can gnaw through bone, much research is going into finding out more about this elusive beast. Bizarrely for the normally pale hagfish, it is a deep incarnadine red, giving rise to its rather fearsome name. Also known as the Chasmslicker due to its speed and habitat, its very appearance caused severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to the two crew members of the submersible DWE-DS-13 as it smacked into the bathysphere, apparently not noticing it in its hunt for food. The sight of 'the big red serpent' appearing out of the darkness exacerbated the cabin fever they had been suffering, and both became terrified of anything that looked remotely serpentine until after severe therapy.