Planula

A planula is the free-swimming, flattened, ciliated, bilaterally symmetrical larva of a hydrozoan cnidarian. It navigates through the water until it reaches a hard substrate where it anchors and grows into a polyp. Planulas are unable to feed themselves.

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Ciliated: REDIRECT cilium...

Bilaterally symmetrical: REDIRECT Symmetry in biology...

Larva: A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians)....

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