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VELIGER [vee-li-jer]

Veliger

[vee-li-jer]
A veliger is the free-swimming, planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and fresh-water gastropod molluscs, as well as a number of bivalves (Dreissena species).

Swimming is accomplished by one or more ciliated membranes.

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