Planula

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A planula is the free-swimming, flattened, ciliated, bilaterally symmetric larval form of various cnidarian species and some species of ctenophores (such as in genus Lampea), which are not closely related to cnidarians.

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Image: Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.); Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.). Annual report 1907/08-1952; Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947; Moore, Carl Richard, 1892-; Redfield, Alfred Clarence, 1890-1983, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons.