bipinnaria larva

bipinnaria larva
(ECHINODERMATA: Asteroidea)
The free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical larva; characterized by ciliated preoral and postoral bands and extending onto lobes projecting from the body; dipleurula larva; see brachiolaria.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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