Chaetonotida

M. Antonio Todaro, Matteo Dal Zotto, Sarah J. Bownes, Renzo Perissinotto cc-by-3.0

Chaetonotida is an order of gastrotrichs. There are 481 species of Chaetonotida, in 33 genera and 8 families. It includes groups like Muselliferidae, Xenotrichulidae, and Neodasyidae. They are omnivores.

URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
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Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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EOL has data for 6 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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body shape
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/BodyShape
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vermiform
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7921571
- Definition: shaped like a worm
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cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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microphage
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3312246
- Definition: a consumer which handles food items in bulk without manipulating them individually
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trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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omnivore
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
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- Attribution: Crustacean body sizes
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Chaetonotida. View this species on GBIF

M. Antonio Todaro, Matteo Dal Zotto, Sarah J. Bownes, Renzo Perissinotto cc-by-3.0

Chaetonotida includes 8 children: