Chaetognatha

kingdom Animalia > phylum Chaetognatha

RankPhylum
Statusaccepted
Aphia IDurn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2081
NCBI ID10229
Common names arrow worms, arrow-worms, arrowworms, Borstenkiefer, chaetognathans, Chaetognathen, chétognathes, chetognati, Pfeilwürmer, pijlwormen, pilmaskar, pilormer, quetognatos, vers-flèches, vers sagittaires, yamushi, 毛顎動物
Environments marine

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Child taxa

Class Sagittoidea

Statistics

Occurrence records 394,477
Species level 167,035
Absence records 64,444
Species 72
Taxa 99
Datasets 445
Time range 1827 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 145
Not marine 0
Marine unsure 0
No coordinates 145
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 0

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 412,899 1,343
decimalLatitude 93 50
decimalLongitude 94 51
eventDate 36,021 0
maximumDepthInMeters 38,376 2,145
minimumDepthInMeters 42,891 3,370
occurrenceStatus 55,045 0
scientificNameID 4,243 9,418

Spatial issues

Records on land 2,913
More than 20 km from shore 356
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 7,611

Distribution

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Environmental conditions

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