Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chaetognatha > Class Sagittoidea > Order Aphragmophora > Family Sagittidae > Genus Parasagitta

Parasagitta elegans (Verrill, 1873)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Parasagitta*	Tokioka, 1965	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Sagitta elegans*	Verrill, 1873	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: sierlijke pijlworm sources: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium

English: arrow worm; elegant arrow worm sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

Japanese: キタヤムシ

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J.; Kapp, H. (2001). Chaetognatha, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 335
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64:1-306.