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Planula

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A planula is the free-swimming, flattened, ciliated, bilaterally symmetric larva of a hydrozoan cnidarian. It navigates through the water until it reaches a hard substrate where it anchors and grows into a polyp. Planulas are unable to feed themselves.


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