Chaetopterus cautus
| Chaetopterus cautus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Polychaeta |
| Family: | Chaetopteridae |
| Genus: | Chaetopterus |
| Species: | C. cautus
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| Binomial name | |
| Chaetopterus cautus Marenzeller, 1879
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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
- ^ WoRMS. "Chaetopterus cautus Marenzeller, 1879". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Moore, Jenna M. (2019). Phylogeny, Systematics, and Evolution of Functional Morphology in Chaetopteridae (Annelida) (PhD thesis). University of FLorida.