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The Chaetognatha are a widespread almost wholly planktonic group occurring, often in large numbers, in the open ocean. They are hermaphrodite but almost certainly not self fertilising animals and exhibit relatively little anatomical variation throughout the group.
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David, P.M. (1965). The Chaetognatha of the Southern Ocean. In: van Mieghem, J., van Oye, P. (eds) Biogeography and Ecology in Antarctica. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7204-0_8
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