Definition of Veligers. Meaning of Veligers. Synonyms of Veligers

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Definition of Veligers

Veliger
Veliger Vel"i*ger, n. [NL., fr. L. velum a veil + gerere bear.] (Zo["o]l.) Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.

Meaning of Veligers from wikipedia

- gastropods, the veligers of bivalves may either feed on phytoplankton or survive off yolk retained from the egg. In plankton feeding veligers, the larva can...
- The Veliger was a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering malacology. The journal was established in 1958 and published its last issue in September...
- microscopic larvae, or veligers, develop within a few days and these veligers soon acquire minute bivalve s****. Free-swimming veligers drift with the currents...
- The larvae or larval stadium: some gastropods may be trochop**** and/or veliger Estivation and hibernation (each of these are present in some gastropods...
- ****s to drive ahead with smartness and despatch. But when the first new Veligers came home again to s****, And settled down as Gastropods with mantle-sac...
- molluscs, annelids, nemerteans and sipunculids trochop**** Certain molluscs veliger Mollusca: freshwater Bivalvia (mussels) glochidium Arthropoda: †Trilobita...
- planktonic trocop**** larvae, later juvenile veligers, and finally adults. Embryos, larvae, and veligers are unable to survive under freshwater conditions...
- s**** when the body is withdrawn). In most species, there is a swimming veliger larva with a coiled s****, but the s**** is shed at metamorphosis when...
- the shallow ins**** areas. Cannonballs eat mainly zooplankton such as veligers, and also all forms of red drum larvae. They have a symbiotic relationship...
- name Stathmonotus stahli (Evermann & M. C. Marsh, 1899) Synonyms Auchenistius stahli Evermann & M. C. Marsh, 1899 Histioclinus veliger Metzelaar, 1919...