For the scientific journal, see The Veliger. For the ballad, see Walter Garstang § The Ballad of the Veliger.
9 day old veliger of the nudibranch Tritonia diomedea with various organs and structures labeled. Larval size about 200 um on its long axis.Veliger of sea hare Dolabrifera dolabrifera, with two rows of cilia visible
A veliger is the planktonic larva of many kinds of sea snails and freshwater snails, as well as most bivalve molluscs (clams) and tusk shells.
A veliger is the planktonic larva of many kinds of sea snails and freshwater snails, as well as most bivalve molluscs (clams) and tusk shells. The veliger...
The Veliger was a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering malacology. The journal was established in 1958 and published its last issue in September...
are observed during the early veliger stage (5-10% of development) in the apical organ. Slightly later, in the veliger stage (15% of development), peripheral...
Larval Forms and Other Zoological Verses, especially The Ballad of the Veliger. They describe the form and function of several marine larvae as well as...
The larvae or larval stadium: some gastropods may be trochophore and/or veliger Estivation and hibernation (each of these are present in some gastropods...
name Stathmonotus stahli (Evermann & M. C. Marsh, 1899) Synonyms Auchenistius stahli Evermann & M. C. Marsh, 1899 Histioclinus veliger Metzelaar, 1919...
shell when the body is withdrawn). In most species, there is a swimming veliger larva with a coiled shell, but the shell is shed at metamorphosis when...
quantitative study of copulation and spawning in the South American apple-snail." Veliger 39.2 (1996): 142–147. Halwart M. (1994). "The golden apple snail Pomacea...
all produce eggs, from which may emerge trochophore larvae, more complex veliger larvae, or miniature adults. The coelomic cavity is reduced. They have...
the prodissoconch I shell. The veliger continues to mature forming the prodissoconch II shell. In the end stage of veliger development photosensitive eye...
develop in about six hours and exist suspended in the water column as veliger larvae for two to three weeks before settling on a bed and reaching sexual...
microscopic larvae, or veligers, develop within a few days and these veligers soon acquire minute bivalve shells. Free-swimming veligers drift with the currents...
West Atlantic Ascoglossa (=Sacoglossa) (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia)". The Veliger. 33: 339–345. S2CID 87182226. Bernhard, Joan M.; Bowser, Samuel S. (1999)...
and over 1 million each year. Free-swimming microscopic larvae, called veligers, drift in the water for several weeks and then settle onto any hard surface...
species with planktonic development, these embryos hatch out as bilobed veligers. After the eggs hatch, the sand collar disintegrates. Bandel, K. (1999)...
free-swimming lecithotrophic trochophore larvae. This is then succeeded by shelled veligers, planktonic larvae. Adults have a semi-infaunal lifestyle, living their...
the shallow inshore areas. Cannonballs eat mainly zooplankton such as veligers, and also all forms of red drum larvae. They have a symbiotic relationship...
before the eggs hatch into trochophore larvae. These later develop into veliger larvae which settle on the seabed and undergo metamorphosis into adults...
surface of the water, because of their relatively large size. They have veliger, or free swimming larvae, but the adults do not swim, and cannot create...
acquisition of chloroplasts begins immediately following metamorphosis from the veliger stage when the juvenile sea slugs begin to feed on the Vaucheria litorea...
plankton with the more common behavior of most other marine gastropods, whose veliger larvae are part of the meroplankton, but who leave the plankton once they...
Gastropoda) with a brief survey of the occurrence of darts in land snails. Veliger 1980, 23:35-42. Ken Hotopp: Land Snails of Pennsylvania: Philomycus togatus...
buffalo filter-feed on invasive zebra mussels during the mollusk's larval (veliger) planktonic stage. They form the native counterpart to the invasive bighead...
microscopic larva emerges called a veliger. During this initial stage of development, which usually lasts a few weeks, veligers are able to swim freely in the...
juveniles. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Glochidia. Trochophore Veliger Hartfield, Paul; Hartfield, Elizabeth (April 1996). "Observations on the...
by sperm from a similar number of males. Pacific oysters have a pelagic veliger larval stage which lasts from 14 to 18 days. In the hatcheries, they are...
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