This was the free-swimming, larval stage of the creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [2061 Odyssey Three]

Their larvae are free-swimming and NOT radially symmetrical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish sex. | My[confined]Space] Reference

In my case, I was obsessed with the idea of seeing a free-swimming sailfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trip Report: Deep Sea Fishing off the Coast of Costa Rica] Reference

The larvae are free-swimming and have the pelvic fins elongated into filaments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

It was the charm of a free-swimming existence that divorced him from a vegetarian diet.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

In its early stages this creature is free-swimming and looks not unlike other young crabs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

Unlike their marine counterparts, freshwater snails never have a free-swimming larval stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mollusca] Reference

There is a terrestrial marine animal which starts life as a free-swimming worm with a notochord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neutron Star]

CHEVA HECK, NOAA SPOKESWOMAN: We have about 31 animals in the pen here, live -- many of them free-swimming.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2005] Reference

Fertilization of the eggs leads to rapid development, and within about 72 hours a free-swimming larvae is formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biology of early life stage of tropical reef corals] Reference

The free-swimming stage of the parasite penetrates the skin of humans and, if infection is heavy, the disease develops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3] Reference

The free-swimming larval stage lasts for 10-15 days before the larvae settle onto fibrous substances, stones, or shellfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 Coastal Mariculture] Reference

The free-swimming form of Naegleria, with two flagella.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference

Saw several free-swimming Lionfish and a big Scorpion fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

When doing so the sperm and eggs make free-swimming larvae.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Nereus will switch between free-swimming and tethered configurations.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Nereus can also be switched into a free-swimming, autonomous vehicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News] Reference

Ammonites were free-swimming molluscs that occupied the ancient oceans.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

It was the second time the technique was used on a free-swimming whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

They are the first free-swimming leatherbacks ever tagged in New England.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

(A) Experimental tank used to record calibrated EODs of free-swimming fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

UNH researchers tag first-ever free-swimming leatherback turtles in New England.    From Wordnik.com.  [WTOP / Business / Biz Stories] Reference

Carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Sea secrets - over 5,000 new marine species found] Reference

These veliger larvae are free-swimming unlike those of other freshwater bivalves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

The first-stage larva are free-swimming, pear-shaped, translucent, and cilliated.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Vibrio fischeri, a free-swimming bacterium found in almost all of the world's oceans.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The same team has tried the technique during one other rescue of a free-swimming whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Most of these wild, free-swimming fish harbored several drug-resistant bacterial strains.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

Movement, free-swimming or gliding, with especial tendency to get under clumps of foreign matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference

Salmonella can alter its physiology as it moves from a free-swimming life to its residence in a host cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

After it has spent its time as a free-swimming creature and has moulted enough it will change into its next form.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Many free-swimming rotifers practise letisimulation when disturbed or when threatened by what they consider impending danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference

'belly sliders' as they fail to become fully free-swimming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)] Reference

Lots of animals which become fixtures are free-swimming when young, oysters, for instance. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

2, 37°C; free-swimming spermatozoa were recovered from the supernatant, centrifuged at 13000 x.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Zebra mussels have a free-swimming veliger larva.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mollusca] Reference

Scallops are the only free-swimming bivalves.    From Wordnik.com.  [View From The Porch] Reference