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Within Vinony's link graph, Tornaria is referenced by 8 other articles, and connects out to biology, zoology and digital object identifier.
Vinony files it under Hemichordates and Larvae.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Hemichordata
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- Dipleurula
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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thumb|right|A tornaria larva
A tornaria is the planktonic larva of some species of Hemichordata such as the acorn worms. It is very similar in appearance to the bipinnaria larvae of starfishes, with convoluted bands of cilia running around the body. It is an oval shaped, transparent larva. The diameter of the body is about 3 mm. It has an apical plate, which is a thickened region provided by a tuft of cilia and a pair of eye spots. The larva has a complete alimentary canal. The ciliary band stretches throughout the anterior and posterior region, and also the postoral region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tornaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.