{{Short description|Family of marine worms}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Spadellidae |authority = Tokioka, 1965<ref name=I>Tokioka, T. (1965). The taxonomical outline of Chaetognatha. ''Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory'', 12(5), 335–357.</ref> }}
'''Spadellidae''' is a [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] of [[sagittoidea]]ns in the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Phragmophora]]. Spadellidae prey on [[plankton]] and commonly reside in the epipelagic zone of the ocean.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Arruda|first=Michele Rodrigues|last2=Ávila|first2=Luiz Ricardo Marques|last3=Bonecker|first3=Sérgio Luiz Costa|date=2010-10-01|title=Chaetognatha, Spadellidae, Paraspadella nana Owre, 1963: new occurrence from the southwest Atlantic Ocean|url=https://checklist.pensoft.net/article/18125/|journal=Check List|volume=6|issue=4|pages=628|doi=10.15560/6.4.628|issn=1809-127X|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Genera== *''[[Bathyspadella]]'' <small>Tokioka, 1939</small><ref name=II>Tokioka, T. (1939). Three new chaetognaths from Japanese waters. ''Memoirs of the Imperial Marine Observatory'', 7, 129–139.</ref> *''[[Calispadella]]'' <small>Casanova & Moreau, 2005</small><ref name=III>Casanova, J. Moreau, X. (2005). ''Calispadella alata'' n. gen., n. sp., the first chaetognath recorded from a [[hydrothermal vent]] site (Mid-Atlantic Ridge). ''Journal of Plankton Research'', 27(2), 221–225.</ref> *''[[Hemispadella]]'' <small>Casanova, 1996</small><ref name=IV>Casanova, J. (1996). A new genus and species of deep benthic chaetognath from the Atlantic: a probable link between the families Heterokrohniidae and Spadellidae. ''Journal of Natural History'', 30, 1239–1245.</ref> *''[[Paraspadella]]'' <small>von Salvini-Plawen, 1986</small><ref name=V>von Salvini-Plawen, L. (1986). Systematic notes on ''Spadella'' and on the Chaetognatha in general. ''Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung'', 24(2), 122–128.</ref> *''[[Spadella]]'' <small>Langerhans, 1880</small><ref name=VI>Langerhans, P. (1880). Die Wurmfauna Madeiras. ''Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie'', 33, 271–316.</ref>
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