- Look up
chaetae in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Chaetae may
refer to:
Chaetae (town) in
ancient Macedon Chaeta, an
anatomical feature of invertebrates...
- annelids,
where they are paired,
unjointed lateral outgrowths that bear the
chaetae. In
several groups of sea
snails and sea slugs, 'parapodium'
refers to...
-
cheta (from
Ancient Gr**** χαίτη (khaítē) 'crest, mane,
flowing hair'; pl.
chaetae) is a
chitinous bristle or seta
found on
annelid worms,
although the term...
-
Chaetae or
Chaitai /ˈkɛti/ (Ancient Gr****: Χαῖται) was a town of
ancient Macedonia that
Ptolemy ****igns to Mygdonia. Its
location cannot precisely be...
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chitinous spines.
These sclerites provide a
stepping stone between the
solid chaetae-like
chitinous sclerites of
Wiwaxia and the
partially hollow, biomineralized...
-
practically identical,
having the same sets of
internal organs and
external chaetae (Gr**** χαιτη,
meaning "hair") and, in some species, appendages. The frontmost...
- of
fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles,
called chaetae,
which are made of chitin. More than 10,000
species are
described in this...
-
about half of the
phylum Annelida.
These worms usually have few
setae (
chaetae) or "bristles" on
their outer body surfaces, and lack parapodia, unlike...
- bristles,
often called chaetae or setae, that may help
defend the
animals and may act as sensors. In some
brachiopods groups of
chaetae help to
channel the...
- bear
chaetae mineralized with carbonate. The best-known
amphinomids are the fireworms,
which can
cause great pain if
their toxin-coated
chaetae are touched...
