This page contains literature cited throughout my chaetognath website. The Library of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science maintains a very thorough collection of all publications dealing with chaetognaths. It may be searched on-line through the following link: VIMS.

• Alvariño, A., 1961. Two new chaetognaths from the Pacific. Pac. Sci., 15: 67-77.
• Alvariño, A., 1966. Zoogeografia de California: Quetognatos. Rev. Soc. Mex. Hist. Nat. 27: 199-243.
• Alvariño, A., 1967. The Chaetognatha of the NAGA Expedition (1959-1961) in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. I. Systematics. Naga Reports. 4:1-197.
• Alvariño, A., 1987. Spadella pimukatharos, a new benthic chaetognath from Santa Catalina Island, California. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 100: 125-133.
• Bieri, R., 1959. The distribution of planktonic Chaetognatha in the Pacific and their relationship to the water masses. Limnol. Oceanogr. 4: 1-28.
• Bieri, R., 1974. A new species of Spadella (Chaetognatha) from California. Pub. Seto Mar. Biol. Lab. 21: 281-286.
• Bieri, R., 1989. Krohnittellidae and Bathybelidae, new families in the Phylum Chaetognatha; the rejection of the family Tokiokaispadellidae and the genera Tokiokaispadella, Zahoya, and Aberrospadella. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 102, pp. 973-976.
• Bieri, R., 1991a. Systematics of the Chaetognatha. In, The Biology of Chaetognaths, edited by Q. Bone, H. Kapp & A.C. Pierrot-Bults, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 122-136.
• Bieri, R., 1991b. Six new genera in the chaetognath family Sagittidae. Gulf. Res. Rep., Vol. 8, pp. 221-226.
• Bieri, R., M. Terazaki, E.V. Thuesen & T. Nemoto, 1987. The colour pattern of Spadella angulata (Chaetognatha: Spadellidae) with a note on its northern range extension. Bull. Plankton Soc. Japan 34: 83-84.
• Bigelow, H.B. & M. Leslie, 1930. Reconnaissance of the waters and plankton of Monterey Bay, July, 1928. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 70: 427-581.
• Bone, Q., H. Kapp & A.C. Pierrot-Bults, 1991. Editors, The Biology of Chaetognaths. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 173 pp.
• Carpenter, E.J., S.J. Anderson, G.R. Harvey, H.P. Miklas, and B.B. Peck. 1972. Polystyrene spherules in coastal waters. Science 178:749-750.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1985. Description de l'appareil genital primitif du genre Heterokrohnia et nouvelle classification des Chaetognathes. C. r. Acad. Sci., Paris, ser. 3, Vol. 301, pp. 397-402.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1986a. Archeterokrohnia rubra, n. gen., n. sp., nouveau Chaetognathe abyssal de l'Atlantique nord-africain: description et position systématique, hypothèse phylogénétique. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4 sér., Vol. 8, pp. 185-194.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1986b. Découverte en Méditerranée d'un chaetognathe nouveau de genre archaique profond Archeterokrohnia: description et signification biogéographique. Rapp. P.-v. Réun. Comm. int. Explor. scient. Mer Médit., Vol. 30, pp. 196.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1986c. Quatre nouveaux Chaetognathes atlantiques abyssaux (Genre Heterokrohnia): description, remarques éthologiques et biogéographiques. Oceanol. Acta, Vol. 9, pp. 469-478.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1991a. Chaetognaths from the Alvin dives on the Seamount Volcano 7 (east tropical Pacific). J. Plankton Res., Vol. 13, pp. 539-548.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1991b. The first record of a benthic polar chaetognath: a new Spadella from the Antarctic. J. Nat. Hist., Vol. 25, pp. 1355-1362.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1992. Chaetognaths from Alvin dives in the Santa Catalina Basin (California), with description of two new Heterokrohnia species. J. Nat. Hist., Vol. 26, pp. 663-674.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1993. A new genus and species of deep-sea chaetognath from the Bay of Biscay with a strange ventral secretory gland. J. Nat. Hist., Vol. 27, pp. 445-455.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1996. Gnathophausia childressi, new species, a mysid from deep near-bottom waters off California, with remarks on the mouthparts of the genus Gnathophausia. J. Crust. Biol., Vol. 16, pp. 192-200.
• Casanova, J.-P., 1999. Chaetognatha. pp. 1353-1374. In, South Atlantic Zooplankton, edited by D. Boltovskoy, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
• Casanova, J.-P. and K. C. Chidgey. 1990. A new benthopelagic species of Heterokrohnia (Chaetognatha) from the North Atlantic Ocean. Bull. Zool. Mus. Amsterdam 12: 109-116
• Casanova, J.P. & M. Duvert, 1996. Biodiversity and evolutionary trends in the phylum Chaetognatha. Bul. Soc. Zool. Fr. - Evol. Zool., Vol. 121, pp. 77-80.
• Casanova, J.-P. & T. Goto, 1997. Sagitta siamensis, a new benthoplanktonic chaetognatha living in marine meadows of the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Cah. Bio. Mar., Vol. 38, pp. 51-58.
• Casanova, J.-P. & V.R. Nair, 1999. A new species of the genus Sagitta (Phylum Chaetognatha) from the Agatti lagoon (Laccadive Archipelago, Indian Ocean) with comments on endemism. Indian J. Mar. Sci., Vol. 28, pp. 169-172.
• Casanova, J. P. & V. R. Nair, 2002. A new species of Sagitta (Chaetognatha) from a Laccadive lagoon (Indian Ocean) having fan-shaped anterior teeth: phylogenetical implications. Journal of Natural History Vol. 36, pp. 149-156.
• Childress, J. J. & E. V. Thuesen, 1993. Effects of hydrostatic pressure on the metabolic rates of six species of deep-sea gelatinous zooplankton. Limnology and Oceanography, 38: 665-670.
• Felts, R.W., 1973. Seasonal Distribution and Abundance of the Chaetognaths from Anaheim Bay, California, and the Adjacent Waters. M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 118 pp.
• Furnestin, M.-L. 1982. Dents et organe vestibulaire des Chaetognathes au microscope électronique à balayage. Rev. Zool. Africaine 96: 138-173.
• Goto, T. & M. Yoshida, 1985. The mating sequence of the benthic arrowworm Spadella schizoptera. Biol. Bull. 169: 328-333.
• Kinoshita, P.B., 1981. Population Structure, Vertical Migration and Feeding of the Chaetognath, Sagitta euneritica in Newport Bay, California. M.A. Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 72 pp.
• Michael, E.L., 1911. Classification and vertical distribution of the Chaetognatha of the San Diego region. Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 8: 20-186.
• Michael, E.L., 1913. Sagitta californica, N. Sp., from the San Diego region. Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 11: 89-126.
• Renshaw, R.W., 1962. The Chaetognaths of the Dillon Beach area and their Possible Use as Indicators of Water Movements. M.A. Thesis, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 71 pp.
• Terazaki, M. & C.B. Miller, 1986. Life history and vertical distribution of pelagic chaetognaths at Ocean Station P in the subarctic Pacific. Deep- Sea Res. 33: 323-337.
• Thuesen, E. V., 1991. The tetrodotoxin venom of chaetognaths. In The Biology of Chaetognaths, edited by Q. Bone, H. Kapp & A. C. Pierrot-Bults. Oxford University Press, London. pp. 55-60.
• Thuesen, E. V. & R. Bieri, 1987. Tooth structure and buccal pores in the chaetognath Flaccisagitta hexaptera and their relation to the capture of fish larvae and copepods. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 65: 181-187.
• Thuesen, E.V. & J.J. Childress, 1993. Enzymatic activities and metabolic rates of pelagic chaetognaths: Lack of depth-related declines. Limnol. Oceanogr. 38: 935-948.
• Thuesen, E. V. & K. Kogure, 1989. Bacterial production of tetrodotoxin in four species of Chaetognatha. Biological Bulletin, 176: 191-194.
• Thuesen, E. V., K. Kogure, K. Hashimoto & T. Nemoto, 1988. Poison arrowworms: a tetrodotoxin venom in the marine phylum Chaetognatha. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 116: 249-256.
• Thuesen, E. V., S. Nagasawa, R. Bieri & T. Nemoto, 1988. Transvestibular pores of chaetognaths with comments on the function and nomenclature of the vestibular anatomy. Bulletin of Plankton Society of Japan, 35: 111-120.
• Thuesen, E. V., K. Numachi & T. Nemoto, 1993. Genetic variation in the planktonic chaetognaths Parasagitta elegans and Eukrohnia hamata. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 103: 243-251.
• Tokioka, T. 1965a. The taxonomical outline of Chaetognatha. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 12: 335- 357.
• Tokioka, T. 1965b. Supplementary notes on the systematics of Chaetognatha. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 13: 231-242.
• Yamaji, I., 1980. Illustrations of the Marine Plankton of Japan. Hoikusha Publishing Company, Osaka. 369 pp.

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