Crossword-Solution: VELIGER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Veliger | n. | Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming. |
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Sentences with VELIGER (5)
But in these epibolic forms, just as in the embolic _Paludina_, the embryo proceeds to develop its ciliated band and shell-gland, passing through the earlier condition of a trochosphere to that of the veliger.
From the fact that _Aplysia_ commences its life as a free-swimming veliger with a nautiloid shell not enclosed in any way by the border of the mantle, it is clear that the enclosure of the shell in the adult is a secondary process.
All pass through trochosphere and veliger stages, and in all a nautiloid or boat-like shell is developed, preceded by a well-marked "shell-gland" (see fig.
Thus the prime characteristics of the veliger stage, subsequent to the appearance of the velum itself, are the development of the visceral sac and shell-gland on the upper, and of the foot on the under side.
With regard to their general relationships, the Scaphopoda resemble the Gasteropoda in their univalve shell, and in the possession of a radula; while the pointed foot, the non-lobed velum in the veliger, the generative system, the bilateral symmetry of the organs generally, and the absence of any definite head, eyes, or tentacles, are points which approximate them to the Pelecypoda.