Parasagitta
Appearance
Parasagitta | |
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Parasagitta elegans | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chaetognatha |
Class: | Sagittoidea |
Order: | Aphragmophora |
Family: | Sagittidae |
Genus: | Parasagitta Tokioka, 1965 [1] |
Species | |
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Parasagitta is a genus of arrow worms (phylum Chaetognatha) in the family Sagittidae. At one time these arrow worms were classified in the genus Sagitta.
Species
[edit]The World Register of Marine Species includes the following species in the genus:[1]
- Parasagitta chilensis (Villenas & Palma, 2006)
- Parasagitta elegans (Verrill, 1873)
- Parasagitta euneritica (Alvariño, 1961)
- Parasagitta friderici (Ritter-Záhony, 1911)
- Parasagitta megalophthalma (Dallot & Ducret, 1969)
- Parasagitta peruviana (Sund, 1961)
- Parasagitta popovicii (Sund, 1961)
- Parasagitta setosa (Müller, 1847)
- Parasagitta tenuis (Conant, 1896)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Thuesen, Erik V. (2015). "Parasagitta Tokioka, 1965". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-04-13.