Sighting of Thysanoteuthis rhombus egg mass in Indonesian waters and observations of embryonic development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2001
Abstract
The egg mass of the diamond-shaped squid, Thysanoteuthis rhombus (Oegopsidae: Thysanoteuthidae) was sighted in surface waters off south-east Sulawesi. It was a sinuous hollow tube-like structure about 2 m long and 0·15 m diameter. It was estimated to contain in the order of 180,000 purple eggs of 1 mm diameter with little or no yolk. Development of the embryos from early differentiation to hatching took between 47 and 57 h at about 28°C.
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- Brief Report
- Information
- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 80 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 1139 - 1140
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- © 2000 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
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