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Chaetognatha
Chaetognatha
Translingual
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Sagitta spp., from a genus in Chaetognatha
Proper noun
Chaetognatha
- A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Protostomia – the arrow worms or chaetognaths.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- (phylum): Archisagittoidea (in some classifications), Sagittoidea - classes
Related terms
- chaetognathous
References
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521