Editing Larva (section)

==Selected types of larvae==
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! Animal || Name of larvae
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| [[Porifera]] (sponges) || coeloblastula (= blastula, amphiblastula), parenchymula (= [[parenchymella]], stereogastrula)
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| [[Rhombozoa|Heterocyemida]] || Wagener's larva
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| [[Dicyemida]] || infusoriform larva
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| [[Cnidarian]]s || [[planula]] (= stereogastrula), actinula
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| [[Ctenophora]] || cydippid larvae
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| [[Platyhelminthes]] || [[Turbellaria]]: [[Müller's larva]], Götte's larva;<br /> [[Trematoda]]: [[miracidium]], [[Trematode lifecycle stages|sporocyst]], [[Trematode lifecycle stages|redia]], [[cercaria]];<br /> [[Monogenea]]: [[oncomiracidium]];<br /> [[Cestoda]]: [[Cysticercosis|cysticercus]], [[cysticercoid]], [[oncosphere]] (or [[hexacanth]]), [[coracidium]], [[plerocercoid]]
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| [[Annelida]] || [[nectochaete]], polytroch
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| [[Nematoda]] || [[Dauer larva]], [[microfilaria]]
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| [[Sipuncula]] || pelagosphera larva
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| [[Ectoprocta]] || [[cyphonautes]], vesiculariform larvae
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| [[Nematomorpha]] || nematomorphan larva
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| [[Phoronid]]s || actinotroch 
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| [[Cycliophora]] || pandora, chordoid larva
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| [[Nemertea]] || pilidium, Iwata larva, Desor larva
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| [[Acanthocephala]] || acanthor
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| [[Locifera]] || Higgins larva
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| [[Brachiopoda]] || lobate larva
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| [[Priapula]] || loricate larva
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| Certain [[Mollusca|molluscs]], [[annelid]]s, [[nemertean]]s and [[sipunculid]]s || [[trochophore]]
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| Certain [[Mollusca|molluscs]] || [[veliger]]
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| [[Mollusca]]: freshwater [[Bivalvia]] (mussels) || [[glochidium]]
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| [[Arthropoda]]: †[[Trilobita]] || protaspis (unjointed), meraspis (increasing number of joints, but 1 less than the holaspis), holaspis (=adult)<ref name='Treatise'>{{cite book|last= Moore|first= R.C.|year= 1959|title= Arthropoda I – Arthropoda General Features, Proarthropoda, Euarthropoda General Features, Trilobitomorpha|publisher= Geological Society of America/University of Kansas Press|series= [[Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology]]|volume= Part O.|pages= O121, O122, O125|location= Boulder, Colorado/Lawrence, Kansas|isbn= 978-0-8137-3015-8}}</ref>
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| [[Arthropoda]]: [[Xiphosura]] || euproöps larva ("trilobite larva")
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| [[Arthropoda]]: [[Pycnogonida]] || protonymphon
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| [[Crustacean]]s || General: [[Crustacean larvae|nauplius, metanauplius, protozoea, antizoea, pseudozoea, zoea, postlarva, cypris, primary larva, mysis]]<br /> [[Decapoda]]: [[zoea]]<br /> [[Rhizocephala]]: [[kentrogon]]
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| [[Insect]]a: [[Lepidoptera]] (butterflies and moths) || [[caterpillar]]
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| [[Insect]]a: [[Beetle]]s || [[Beetle#Life cycle|grub]]
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| [[Insect]]a: [[Fly|Flies]], [[Bee]]s, [[Wasp]]s || [[maggot]]
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| [[Insect]]a: [[Mosquito]]es || [[Wriggler (mosquito larva)|wriggler]]
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| [[Insect]]a: [[Orthoptera]] (crickets and grasshoppers), [[Odonata]] (dragonflies and damselflies), [[Hemiptera]] (true bugs) || [[Nymph (biology)|nymph]]
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| [[Deuterostome]]s || [[dipleurula]] (hypothetical larva)
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| [[Echinodermata]] || [[bipinnaria]], vitellaria, brachiollaria, pluteus, ophiopluteus, echinopluteus, auricularia
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| [[Hemichordata]] || [[tornaria]]
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| [[Urochordata]] || tadpole (does not feed, technically a "swimming embryo")
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| [[Fish]] (generally) || [[Fish larva|Ichthyoplankton]]
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| [[Fish]]: [[Petromyzontiformes]] (lamprey) || [[ammocoete]]
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| [[Fish]]: [[Anguilliformes]] (eels) || [[leptocephalus]]
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| [[Amphibian]]s || [[Tadpole|tadpole, polliwog]]
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