Chaetopterus cautus

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Chaetopterus cautus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Family: Chaetopteridae
Genus: Chaetopterus
Species:
C. cautus
Binomial name
Chaetopterus cautus
Marenzeller, 1879

Chaetopterus cautus is a species of parchment worm, a marine polychaete in the family Chaetopteridae. [1]

Taxonomy

Chaetopterus cautus was formerly synonymized with Chaetopterus variopedatus, it has been elevated to a full species based on morphologic distinctiveness. [2] [3] [4]

References

  1. ↑ WoRMS. "Chaetopterus cautus Marenzeller, 1879". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  2. ↑ Nishi, Eijiroh (2001). "Partial revision of Japanese Chaetopterus (Chaetopteridae, Polychaeta), including description of three new species from southern Pacific side of central Japan". Actinia: Bulletin of the Manazuru Marine Laboratory for Science Education, Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University. 14: 1–26.
  3. ↑ Moore, Jenna M.; Nishi, Eijiroh; Rouse, Greg W. (2017). "Phylogenetic analyses of Chaetopteridae (Annelida)". Zoologica Scripta. 46 (5): 596–610. doi:10.1111/zsc.12238.
  4. ↑ Moore, Jenna M. (2019). Phylogeny, Systematics, and Evolution of Functional Morphology in Chaetopteridae (Annelida) (PhD thesis). University of FLorida.
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