orthonectids

orthonectids
n.; n. pl. [Gr. orthos, straight; nekton, swimming]
A class of Mesozoa with an asexual parasitic plasmodial generation in many marine invertebrates and a sexual free-swimming generation.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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