Metatrochophora

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Brightfield microscopy image of a metatrochophora of the annelid worm Pomatoceros lamarckii ( Serpulidae family )
ey = eye spot

A metatrochophora is a larva that develops from the trochophoric larva of a multi-bristled annelid worm .

Metatrochophores have features that trochophores do not, including eye spots and segments .

Individual evidence

  1. Carmel McDougall, Wei-Chung Chen, Sebastian M. Shimeld, David EK Ferrier: "The development of the larval nervous system, musculature and ciliary bands of Pomatoceros lamarckii (Annelida): heterochrony in polychaetes" . In: Frontiers in Zoology . 3, No. 1, 2006, p. 16. doi : 10.1186 / 1742-9994-3-16 .