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ascidian tadpole

DEFINITIONS OF: ascidian tadpole

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n free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord

Type of:
larva
the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
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