A veliger is the free-swimming, planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and fresh-water gastropod molluscs, as well as a number of bivalves (Dreissena species).

Swimming is accomplished by one or more ciliated membranes.

Veliger of sea hare Dolabrifera dolabrifera, with two rows of cilia visible

External links

• The Veliger, Publication of the California Malacozoological Society

• Zebra Mussel FAQs

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