Lab 7 Flashcards
(9 cards)
bipartite cycle
one or more larval stages
meroplankton
organisms with spend only part of their lives as plankton
holoplankton
organisms which spend their whole lives as plankton
nekton
larger open ocean animals that move primarily by swimming
trocophore
top like larvae; 1st larval stage, typically possess an apical tuft, forms are varied; present in Polychaete worms
Nauplius
larvae of Arthropods, also most crustaceans; shield shaped, three pains of jointed appendages, singular compound eyes, tenon with uropods, and can undergo many molts
cypris
larval stage the follows a nauplius larvae, in barnacles; enclosed in a bivalve carapace
zoea
larvae that looks like nauplius larvae but has 2 eye, almost a miniature adult in stage
megalops
stage after zoea that resembles a mini adult crab, only present in crabs