Definition of Genus spadella

1. Noun. Marine worms resembling the sagittas but with a broader body and only one pair of lateral fins.

Generic synonyms: Worm Genus
Group relationships: Chaetognatha, Phylum Chaetognatha

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Spadella

genus Solandra
genus Solanopteris
genus Solanum
genus Solea
genus Soleirolia
genus Solenopsis
genus Solenostemon
genus Solidago
genus Somateria
genus Sonchus
genus Sonora
genus Sophora
genus Sorbus
genus Sorex
genus Sorghum
genus Spadella
genus Spalax
genus Sparaxis
genus Sparganium
genus Sparmannia
genus Spartina
genus Spartium
genus Spathiphyllum
genus Spergula
genus Spergularia
genus Sphacele
genus Sphacelotheca
genus Sphaeralcea
genus Sphaerocarpos

Literary usage of Genus spadella

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1918)
"... type would perhaps give a clearer affinity to the genus Spadella. The conspicuous pair of tentacles which surmounts the head is absent in modern ..."

2. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"In the genus Spadella there is a thin th Fe°: "o; .- Transverse section layer of transverse muscle ..."

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