Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Heteronereis

Heteronereis , noun

[New Latin See Hetero-, and Nereis.]

(Zoology) A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamella, and their seta become longer and bladelike.