Abstract
1. The principal bile salt, myxinol disulphate, of two hagfish species, Eptatretus stoutii and Myxine glutinosa, has been shown by chemical methods and by optical-rotatory and mass-spectral considerations to be probably the C-3,27-disulphate ester of 3β,7α,16α,27-tetrahydroxy-5β-cholestane. 2. Myxine liver sterols were about half `free' and half esterified: cholesterol only was identified. 3. The chemical nature of myxinol is what might be expected for the bile alcohol of a very primitive vertebrate.
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