direct development
No larval stage
Direct development is a pattern of growth in which an organism hatches or is born resembling a miniature adult, bypassing distinct larval stages.
Frogs undergo indirect development through a tadpole stage; some salamanders develop directly.
The term appears primarily in biology: Species with direct development skip the free-swimming larval phase entirely.
- live birthBaby born alive
- reptilesCold-blooded scaly vertebrates
- embryogenesisFormation of early life
- ontogenyIndividual's developmental history
- growing upDeveloping into adulthood
birds · larval stage · cephalopods · neoteny · arachnids · mammals · baby animals · monotremes · marsupials · pupation · tadpole · frog eggs · differentiation · adult · offspring · hatchling · hatching out · reproductive strategy
- life cycleslife cycle, birth, death, growth, metamorphosis
- mollusk developmentegg, embryo, larva, juvenile, adult
- amphibiansfrog, frogs, newt, toad, toads
- metamorphosislarval stage, pupal stage, chrysalis, cocoon, pupa
- marine larvaelarva, larval stage
- snail reproductionhermaphroditism, mating, copulation, fertilization, egg laying