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Sagitta (arrowworm)
Genus of marine worms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sagitta is a genus of Chaetognatha, a phylum commonly known as arrowworms or arrow worms. Phylum Chaetognatha comprises small marine worms.
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Sagitta sp. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chaetognatha |
Class: | Sagittoidea |
Order: | Aphragmophora |
Family: | Sagittidae |
Genus: | Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Abaciasagitta |
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This genus is characterized in part by the distribution of the cilia on the body, the thick rays in the fins, and hooks which are not serrated.[1]
As of 2007 there are 15 species.[1] More have since been described.[2]
Species include:
- Sagitta abyssicola
- Sagitta bedoti
- Sagitta bipunctata – Commons
- Sagitta bruuni
- Sagitta euneritica
- Sagitta euxina
- Sagitta glacialis
- S. g. baltica
- S. g. glacialis
- Sagitta izuensis
- Sagitta kussakini
- Sagitta modesta
- Sagitta nagae
- Sagitta nutana
- Sagitta pulchra
- Sagitta sceptrum
- Sagitta setosa
- Sagitta sublica