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    Phylum Chaetognatha: Means "Hairy Jaws" 100 SP

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    Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are small marine predators found in warm, shallow waters around the world. They have torpedo-shaped bodies up to 12 cm long with fins and muscles that allow them to quickly dart through the water to catch prey like copepods and fish larvae. Despite having a simple anatomy without specialized respiratory or excretory systems, arrow worms have a well-developed nervous system and sense organs that help them effectively hunt as planktonic predators. All species are hermaphrodites that develop first as males and then females to reproduce.

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    Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are small marine predators found in warm, shallow waters around the world. They have torpedo-shaped bodies up to 12 cm long with fins and muscles that allow them to quickly dart through the water to catch prey like copepods and fish larvae. Despite having a simple anatomy without specialized respiratory or excretory systems, arrow worms have a well-developed nervous system and sense organs that help them effectively hunt as planktonic predators. All species are hermaphrodites that develop first as males and then females to reproduce.

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    Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are small marine predators found in warm, shallow waters around the world. They have torpedo-shaped bodies up to 12 cm long with fins and muscles that allow them to quickly dart through the water to catch prey like copepods and fish larvae. Despite having a simple anatomy without specialized respiratory or excretory systems, arrow worms have a well-developed nervous system and sense organs that help them effectively hunt as planktonic predators. All species are hermaphrodites that develop first as males and then females to reproduce.

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    Phylum Chaetognatha: Means "Hairy Jaws" 100 SP

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    Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are small marine predators found in warm, shallow waters around the world. They have torpedo-shaped bodies up to 12 cm long with fins and muscles that allow them to quickly dart through the water to catch prey like copepods and fish larvae. Despite having a simple anatomy without specialized respiratory or excretory systems, arrow worms have a well-developed nervous system and sense organs that help them effectively hunt as planktonic predators. All species are hermaphrodites that develop first as males and then females to reproduce.

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    Phylum Chaetognatha

    (arrow worms)

    means hairy jaws


    >100 sp
    marine
    warm shallow waters
    most are planktonic
    swim and drift on surface at night; sink deeper
    during the day
    very common
    voraceous predators in planktonic community
    a few species are benthic forms
    Body Form
    small straight bodies
    torpedo or dart like
    1 - 12 cm long
    Body Form
    1

    head - unsegmented trunk - postanal tail


    Body Wall
    think cuticle covers body
    single layer of epidermis
    on sides of animal becomes multilayered
    well developed coelom
    used as hydrostatic skeleton
    Movement
    highly mobile and nearly transparent
    effective predators
    use caudal fins and longitudinal muscles to dart at prey
    horizontal fins act as stabilizers
    Feeding & Digestion
    predators of copepods, fish and each other
    use water vibrations to detect prey
    2

    teeth and chitinous spines on head


    use curved spines around mouth to capture prey
    complete digestive tract
    Circulation
    simple hemal system
    Nervous System
    well developed nervous system
    consists of nerve ring around esophagus
    with cerebral ganglia and other ganglia
    sense organs:
    eyes
    sensory bristles
    may also be able to detect water vibrations, water
    currents and chemicals
    no respiratory or excretory systems
    Reproduction
    3

    all are protandrous hermaphrodites


    function first as male then as female
    cross or self fertilization
    eggs are planktonic
    Evolutionary Relationships
    some think theyre related to nematodes or annelids??
    others believe they are related to deuterostomes
    molecular phylogeny suggests they are not closely
    related to either protostomes or deuterostomes
    they apparently split some time before the
    protostome/deuterostome split

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