Dictionary of Ichthyology  

thread cell = a cell in the skin of Myxini which discharge coiled threads mixed with mucus.
Bdellostoma (= Eptatretus), one cell exploded, the other intact, from Kingsley's "Text Book of Vertebrate Zoology", 1906. Photograph by Brian W. Coad.

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