planula

A noun referring to the flat, ciliated, free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates.

• 🇩🇪Biologie: frei schwimmende, bewimperte Larve von Hydrozoen und anderen Nesseltieren.

1. Larval stage of hydrozoans C2 formal scientific

   The free-swimming, ciliated, flattened larval form of hydrozoan coelenterates, which eventually settles and develops into a polyp.

   • The planula larva drifts in the ocean currents before attaching to a substrate.
   • After fertilization, the embryo develops into a planula.
   • Planulae are typically oval or flattened in shape and covered in cilia.

   🇩🇪Larvalstadium der Hydrozoen

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