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Pluteus

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pluteus [′plüd·ē·əs]
(invertebrate zoology)
The free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical, easel-shaped larva of ophiuroids and echinoids.
pluteus
1. A low barrier placed between columns.
2. A screen of pierced marble which surrounds the choir or sanctuary of a church.
Pluteus 

the larva of a sea urchin or ophiuran. A pluteus has paired appendages, or arms, inside which are calcareous skeletal needles. The larva swims by means of its arms, which are fringed with ciliated epithelium. Only part of its body is metamorphosed into the adult; the rest of the body and the arms atrophy.
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During normal development with a high concentration diet, growth of the pluteus larva seems to be primarily an increase in dimension of the feeding structures, the arms, that requires little production.
Effect of food concentration on protein and carbohydrate production ... by Miloslavich, Patricia; Lawrence, John M.; Schiopu, Daniela; Klein, Eduardo / Journal of Shellfish Research
BASIDIOMYCOTA Order Agaricales Family Pluteaceae Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff.
The lignicolous fungi of Ginn Woods, Delaware County, Indiana by Nurtjahja, Kiki / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
In additional studies, we found that these antagonists protected the late larvae (prism and pluteus stages) from chlorpyrifos-induced lethality.
An Invertebrate Model of the Developmental Neurotoxicity of ... by Slotkin, Theodore A. / Environmental Health Perspectives
 
 
 
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