A planula is the free-swimming, flattened, ciliated, bilaterally symmetric larval form of various cnidarian species and also in some species of Ctenophores...
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M. planula may refer to a few different species. Macrochlamys planula [zh; wikidata], a species of air-breathing land snails in the family Ariophantidae...
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corners of a single opening with lips fusing. E.g. Acoela resemble the planula larvae of some Cnidaria, which exhibit some bilaterian symmetry. They are...
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Magosphaera planula was a spherical multiflagellated multicellular microorganism discovered by Ernst Haeckel in September 1869 while he was collecting...
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Megachile planula is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Vachal in 1908. "Megachile". BioLib. 2014. Retrieved 18 October...
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Heterocyemida Wagener's larva Dicyemida infusoriform larva Cnidarians planula (= stereogastrula), actinula Ctenophora cydippid larvae Platyhelminthes...
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opening, similar to Xenoturbella. Alternatively, it may have resembled the planula larvae of some cnidaria, which have some bilateral symmetry. However, there...
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begin their lives as tiny, free-swimming larvae known as planulae. As a planula settles down, it gives rise to a colony of polyps that are attached to...
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complex life cycle. The medusa is normally the sexual phase, which produces planula larvae. These then disperse widely and enter a sedentary polyp phase which...
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through the mouth into the sea. The resulting fertilized eggs develop into planula larvae which, after being planktonic for a while, settle on the seabed...
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cycle. The basic pattern is medusa (usually the adult or sexual phase), planula larva, polyp, medusa. Symmetry is tetramerous, with parts in fours or multiples...
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rather like a morula with cilia. In cnidarians, this stage is called the planula, and either develops directly into the adult animals or forms new adult...
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days to weeks. Subsequent development produces a tiny larva, known as a planula. Externally fertilized eggs develop during synchronized spawning. Polyps...
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"Planulozoa" because it suggests that the earliest Bilateria were similar to the planula larvae of Cnidaria. Within the Cnidaria, the Anthozoa (sea anemones and...
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There is an increasing size from starting stage planula to ephyra, from less than 1 mm in the planula stage, up to about 1 cm in ephyra stage, and then...
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present, depending on the family. In those scyphozoans that have the larval planula metamorphose into a polyp, the polyp, also called a "scyphistoma," grows...
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parade prowl — Jay chick hen cock band party scold corvine Jellyfish ephyra planula polyp — — bloom brood fluther smack smuth scyphozoan Junglefowl (see chicken)...
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Staghorn coral (section Coral planula)
coral planula to nearby reefs, and the selection of a spot while avoiding harmful UV radiation, sedimentation and shading, giving the planula the best...
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fertilize at the water's surface and form a microscopic larva called a planula, typically pink and elliptical in shape. A typical coral colony needs to...
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begins with a planula larvae. This planula will continue to swim until it finds a substrate that it can use as support. Once the planula attaches to a...
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at what depth these occur. A fertilized man o' war egg develops into a planula that buds off new zooids as it grows, gradually forming a new colony. This...
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Adults release sperm or egg into the water; fertilized eggs form planula larvae. The planula then attaches itself to a rock or similar structure that allows...
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resulting in left-right symmetry. The planula hypothesis, proposed by Bütschli, suggests that metazoa are derived from planula; that is, the larva of certain...
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gametes fuse during fertilisation to form a microscopic larva called a planula, typically pink and elliptical in shape. Synchronous spawning is very typical...
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gametes freely into the sea in most cases. Zygotes become free-swimming planula larvae or actinula larvae that either settle on a suitable substrate (in...
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structure in early larval development via invaginations of the flattened planula structure. Further observations of the siphonophore species Nanomia bijuga...
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release gametes into the sea where fertilisation takes place, and the planula larvae drift as part of the plankton, but a few species brood their eggs...
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planary, planate, planation, plane, planification, planiform, planish, planula, planular, planulate plang-, planct- strike, beat; lament, mourn Latin...
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they release sperm and eggs into the water. After fertilisation, the planula larvae form part of the plankton. When fully developed, the larvae settle...
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later morphs into a blastula, then a ciliated swimming larva called a planula. The planulae are free-swimming for a while but eventually attach themselves...
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