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What is a pluteus?

What is a pluteus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
  2. (zoology) The free-swimming larvae of echinoderms.
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The name of pluteus was given generally to all kinds of covering with hurdles or with skins.
When they reached the pluteus four-arms stage, larvae were fed twice a day ad libitum with a mixture of Pavlova lutheri, Chaetoceros calcitrans, and Isochrysis galbana.
Also imaged were a variety of invertebrate plankters, ranging from copepods and larvaceans to ctenophores and medusae to invertebrate larval types, such as echinoderm pluteus.
Driesch has found that a tropism underlies the arrangement of the skeleton in the pluteus larvae of the sea-urchin.
One species, pluteus cervinus, is recorded as edible, but not specially commended.
The full-grown larva of the Ophiuroids is known as a pluteus.

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