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Distribution of Lampreys

Lampreys share with gnathostomes a more advanced kidney than hagfish, a pho-tosensitive pineal, a lateral line, radial muscles in the fins, functional eyes, extrin-sic eye muscles, neural and hemal vertebral elements formed around the notochord, and similarities in pituitary histology. These features have strongly suggested to some that hagfish is …

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