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Chaetognatha 
AphiaID: 2081

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Phylum
Parent Animalia
Sources  basis of record: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Bone, Q., Kapp, H. & Pierrot-Bults, A.C. (eds.), 1991. The biology of chaetognaths. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English arrow worms  [details]
Japanese yamushi  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Class Sagittoidea
Environment marine
Distribution Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details]
Feedingtypes  carnivore [details]
predator [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Image 
Chaetognatha
Chaetognatha
added on 2010-08-25 - author: Brusca & Brusca, 1990
qualitystatus: not checked
Edit
history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2008-11-14 13:45:35Z  checked  Thuesen, Erik V.
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2009). Chaetognatha. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2081 on 2010-09-02
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