Apparently scaleless, and without free pectoral rays.

Hagfish are scaleless with soft skin.

The majority of the coast settlers will not eat them, being under the idea that, as they are all but scaleless, they are 'poisonous.'

He deserved it all-alllabour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him.