any of the chitinous bristles on the body of such annelids as the earthworm and the lugworm: used in locomotion; a seta
Word origin
C19: New Latin, from Greek khaitē long hair
Examples of 'chaetae' in a sentence
chaetae
Genera are distinguished by the chaetae morphology.
María Capa, Torkild Bakken, Karin Meißner, Arne Nygren 2018, 'Three, two, one! Revision of the long-bodied sphaerodorids (Sphaerodoridae, Annelida)and synonymization of Ephesiella, Ephesiopsis and Sphaerodorum', PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/5783.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Recovery of paraphyletic compound and simple chaetae clades urge the synonymization of thesetwo genera of long-bodied sphaerodorids.
María Capa, Torkild Bakken, Karin Meißner, Arne Nygren 2018, 'Three, two, one! Revision of the long-bodied sphaerodorids (Sphaerodoridae, Annelida)and synonymization of Ephesiella, Ephesiopsis and Sphaerodorum', PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/5783.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)