“…At present, 24 genera of Agonidae and Psychrolutidae are known to perform internal insemination spanning multiple independent clades (Agonidae: Agonomalus, Blepsias, Brachyopsis, Hemitripterus, Ocella, Pallasina, Podothecus;Psychrolutidae: Alcichthys, Artedius, Astrocottus, Bero, Chitonotus, Clinocottus, Enophrys, Furcina, Icelus, Oligocottus, Orthonopias, Pseudoblennius, Psychrolutes, Radulinopsis, Synchirus, Vellitor. See [Abe and Munehara, 2009;Munehara, 2011;Koya et al, 2015;Momota and Munehara, 2017;Awata et al, 2019Awata et al, , 2022). However, only seven species have been experimentally demonstrated to exhibit IGA by observation of initiation of development via exposing the eggs to seawater (Al.…”