# Sagitta (arrowworm)

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Genus of marine worms

Sagitta Sagitta sp. Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chaetognatha Class: Sagittoidea Order: Aphragmophora Family: Sagittidae Genus: Sagitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 Species See text Synonyms Abaciasagitta

***Sagitta*** is a genus of [Chaetognatha](/source/Chaetognatha), a phylum commonly known as arrowworms or arrow worms. Phylum Chaetognatha comprises small marine worms.

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_abyssicola&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta bedoti](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_bedoti&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta bipunctata](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_bipunctata&action=edit&redlink=1)* – [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sagitta_bipunctata)

- *[Sagitta bruuni](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_bruuni&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta euneritica](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_euneritica&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta euxina](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_euxina&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta glacialis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_glacialis&action=edit&redlink=1)* - *S. g. baltica* - *S. g. glacialis*

- *[Sagitta izuensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_izuensis&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta kussakini](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_kussakini&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta modesta](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_modesta&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta nagae](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_nagae&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta nutana](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_nutana&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta pulchra](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_pulchra&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta sceptrum](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_sceptrum&action=edit&redlink=1)*

- *[Sagitta setosa](/source/Sagitta_setosa)*

- *[Sagitta sublica](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sagitta_sublica&action=edit&redlink=1)*

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-kassa_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-kassa_1-1) Kassatkina, A. P. (2007). [Review of the genera of the family Sagittidae with separation of a new subfamily and description of a new species of the genus *Sagitta* from the Sea of Japan (Chaetognatha).](http://www.zin.ru/Journals/zsr/content/2007/zr_2007_16_2_Kassatkina.pdf) *Zoosystematica Rossica*, 16(2), 157-162.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-kassa08_2-0)** Kassatkina, A. P. (2008). [New species of the genus *Sagitta sensu str*.(Chaetognatha) from the Sea of Japan with description of an original staining and dissection technique.](http://www.zin.ru/Journals/zsr/content/2007/zr_2007_16_2_Kassatkina.pdf) *Zoosystematica Rossica*, 17(1): 3-6.

## External links

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Taxon identifiers Sagitta Wikidata: Q4404443 Wikispecies: Sagitta (Animalia) AFD: Sagitta BOLD: 80149 CoL: 84TCR EoL: 64892 GBIF: 2306892 iNaturalist: 211666 IRMNG: 1344044 ITIS: 158727 NBN: NBNSYS0000177785 NCBI: 10230 NZOR: d0735c53-701b-42ff-9e51-2935900fd3b6 Open Tree of Life: 49628 Plazi: 283C495B-F46C-709E-184C-099F1FDE6B01 WoRMS: 105410 ZooBank: 17DD4881-96E8-4C48-9414-CE6A6844B541

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