What's the difference between arrowworm and chaetognath?
Arrowworm
Definition:
(n.) A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta.
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Chaetognath
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha.
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(1) Larval cestodes were described from chaetognaths and some other planktonic animals of the north-west African coastal waters.
(2) White, opaque spherules are selectively consumed by 8 species of fish out of 14 species examined, and a chaetognath.
(3) Various species of herbivorous copepods as well as contemporary carnivorous chaetognaths living in the same environment present traces of this fatty acid.
(4) In chaetognaths, the locomotor muscle fibres are extensively coupled and relatively sparsely innervated, they exhibit compound spike-like potentials.
(5) The histology of the Chaetognath's trunk is largely based upon works of Hertwig (1880) and Burfield (1927) and is revised here essentially on ultrastructural basis, in a study on Sagitta setosa.
(6) Swimming behaviour and locomotor adaptations are described in chaetognaths, larvacean tunicates, some cnidaria, and thaliacean tunicates.