How To Use free-swimming In A Sentence
- Many cichlids brood the eggs in the mouth and, although rare, the free-swimming young of some species also rush into the parent's mouth for protection.
- The female releases her eggs one at a time, and one hatching the young animal will go through both a free-swimming trochophore and veliger stage, like all molluscs, before settling into an adult form in the muddy seafloor.
- In some habitats, in addition to the aquatic insect larvae, crustaceans such as freshwater shrimp, crayfishes, and tiny free-swimming “water fleas” are important food items. Trout and Salmon of North America
- Fertilized eggs may be brooded for a time or may develop directly into a free-swimming, ciliated planula larva.
- Their larvae are free-swimming and NOT radially symmetrical. Starfish sex. | My[confined]Space
- To determine the importance of fragmentation, tethered and free-swimming euphausiids were videotaped in the presence of marine snow representing a range of aggregate strengths, sizes, and ages.
- Many tunicates have a larva that is free-swimming and exhibits all chordate characteristics: it has a notochord, a dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail.
- Swimmer's itch is caused by a free-swimming parasite that burrows into and irritates the skin of humans.
- Free-swimming larvae of land crabs eat plankton in the ocean.
- More than 700 creatures new to science, ranging from crustaceans and molluscs to carnivorous sponges and free-swimming worms, have been discovered on a series ... Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: Reading Lion Tracks: New York Times' Friedman on Vacation in the Bush
