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Because of the great variety and numbers of insects, together with their undoubted economic importance, it is sometimes forgotten that they are rather atypical invertebrates. The majority of the invertebrate phyla are marine, some with representatives in fresh water and on land; many are sessile as adults, or are burrowers in the sea bottom, or lead otherwise more or less sedentary lives. The reproductive strategies of such invertebrates commonly include free-living larval stages, which may be of some developmental importance as feeding stages to build up sufficient reserves for the production of the adult body, or this role may be secondary to the more important functions of dispersal and site selection. Insects, on the other hand, have been preeminently terrestrial creatures from the Devonian onwards, and the majority of modern forms have highly mobile flying adults. Consequently, insect larvae have a more profound developmental role than their counterparts in other phyla, since the functions of habitat selection and dispersal have been transferred to the adult generation.
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Highnam, K.C. (1981). A Survey of Invertebrate Metamorphosis. In: Gilbert, L.I., Frieden, E. (eds) Metamorphosis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3246-6_2
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