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.

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