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  Veliger larvae

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This slide shows several stained veliger larvae that are found in many gastropods and bivalves.  The larvae (which develop from ciliated, free-swimming trochophore larvae) have the beginnings of a foot, shell and mantle.  In many molluscs the trochophore larval stage is passed in the egg, and the veliger hatches to become the only free-swimming stage.

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