Neomyxine biplinicata is an eel-like hagfish. When they sense a threat, they excrete a substance from their pores that turns into a jelly-like fluid when mixed with water. This jelly like fluid can either trap predators or clog their gills. Which two systems alert the hagfish to danger and help produce the slime that defense?
Neomyxine biniplicatais an endemic hagfish from the east coast of New Zealand. This species produces holocrine secretions by the slime glands and merocrine secretions by the epidermis.
The systems that alert the hagfish to danger and help produce the slime that it uses as a defense are INTEGUMENTARY and NERVOUS SYSTEMS.
Neomyxine biniplicata (slender hagfish) is well-known to release slime that expands into the surrounding water in response to predator attacks.
In response to threat, the nervous system of the slender hagfish stimulates an increase in the secretion of slime.
The hagfish produces holocrine secretions by the slime glands and merocrine secretions by the epidermis.
