planula in English

noun
1
a free-swimming coelenterate larva with a flattened, ciliated, solid body.
Fertilized eggs may be brooded for a time or may develop directly into a free-swimming, ciliated planula larva.

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1. Fertilization is external, producing free - living planula larva.

2. 24 Fertilization is external, producing free - living planula larva.

3. Cnidarians often have a life cycle consisting of planula larva, polyp, and medusa stages.

4. In Anthozoans, the typical life cycle begins with the development of fertilized eggs into free-swimming larvae known as planula, which in turn transform into polyps that can undergo asexual reproduction to produce new polyps or form colonies.

5. Definition and Origin of Cnidaria: Diploblastic metazoans with radial symme­try, tissues but rarely organs and a single central body cavity with mouth and tentacles but no anus, and the stinging cells or nematocysts, and with ciliated planula larva, called Cnidaria.