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Chaetopterus norvegicus

species of parchment worm

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ135615992 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chaetopterus norvegicus is a species of parchment worm, a marine polychaete in the family Chaetopteridae.

It is found in the North Sea and Arctic waters around Norway and the west coast of Sweden at depths of 30 to 550 m (100 to 1,800 ft).

Taxonomy

Chaetopterus norvegicus was formerly synonymized with C. variopedatus, but Moore et al. (2020) recognized it as a distinct species.

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“Chaetopterus norvegicus” enters the record as species of parchment worm. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chaetopterus, norvegicus and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chaetopterus norvegicus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.