Myzontes

From the nominative plural of Ancient Greek μυζῶν (muzôn, “sucking”), contracted present active participle of μυζάω (muzáō, “suck”).

Myzontes

1. (obsolete) A taxonomic class within the subphylum Vertebrata – animals with an incomplete cartilaginous skull, no lower jaw, and pouch-like gills, including the lampreys and hagfishes, corresponding to the accepted class Cyclostomata.

• (obsolete class): See Cyclostomata

• (obsolete class): See Cyclostomata

• Petromyzontes

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Myzontes”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Animalia (classifications) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies