Lava

Kwa matumizi mengine ya jina hili angalia lava (volkeno)
Lava (kutoka neno la Kiingereza larva ambalo lina asili ya Kilatini; pia bombwe) ni mtoto wa mdudu au wa mmojawapo wa invertebrata, amfibia au samaki katika hatua za awali za ukuaji wake.

Lava wa wadudu kadhaa wana majina ya pekee:
 jana ni lava wa nyuki
 buu na funza ni lava wa nzi na mbawakawa fulani
 kiluwiluwi ni lava wa mbu
 kiwavi ni lava wa kipepeo
 tunutu ni lava wa nzige

Kuna pia amfibia wanaopita hali ya lava. [[Ndubwi au kiluwiluwi ni lava wa chura.

Lava wa spishi mbalimbali huendelea kupitia hali ya pupa kabla ya kuendelea katika ngazi ya mwisho wa mabadiliko ya maumbile metafofosi.

 Tanbihi 

Marejeo
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 Leis, J. M. & Carson-Ewart, B. M., eds. (2000). The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes. An Identification Guide to Marine Fish Larvae. Fauna Malesiana handbooks, vol. 2. Brill, Leiden. 
 Minelli, A. (2009). The larva. In: Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution. Oxford University Press. p. 160-170. link.
 Shanks, A. L. (2001). An Identification Guide to the Larval Marine Invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis. 256 pp. 
 Smith, D. & Johnson, K. B. (1977). A Guide to Marine Coastal Plankton and Marine Invertebrate Larvae. Kendall/Hunt Plublishing Company.
 Stanwell-Smith, D., Hood, A. & Peck, L. S. (1997). A field guide to the pelagic invertebrates larvae of the maritime Antarctic. British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.
 Thyssen, P.J. (2010). Keys for Identification of Immature Insects. In: Amendt, J. et al. (ed.). Current Concepts in Forensic Entomology'', chapter 2, pp. 25–42. Springer: Dordrecht,  .

 Viungo vya nje 

Arenas-Mena, C. (2010) Indirect development, transdifferentiation and the macroregulatory evolution of metazoans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Feb 27, 2010 Vol.365 no.1540 653-669 

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