World Register of Deep-Sea species

Deep-Sea taxon details

Chaetognatha

AphiaID

2081 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2081)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Phylum

Parent

Animalia

Direct children (1)

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Class Sagittoidea

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Deep-Sea (2025). Chaetognatha. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2081 on 2026-06-26

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Chaetognatha. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2081 on 2026-06-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2008-11-14 13:45:35Z

checked

Thuesen, Erik V.

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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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Dutch	pijlwormen	[details]
English	chaetognathansarrow-wormsarrowwormsarrow worms	[details]
French	vers-flèchesvers sagittaireschétognathes	[details]
German	PfeilwürmerChaetognathenBorstenkiefer	[details]
Italian	chetognati	[details]
Japanese	矢虫 (yamushi)毛顎類 (Mōgakurui)	[details]
Norwegian	pilormer	[details]
Spanish	quetognatos	[details]
Swedish	pilmaskar	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chaetognatha)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits)
To ITIS

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Chaetognatha