Reproductive behavior, embryonic and early larval development of the red head goby, Elacatinus puncticulatus

Year‐round natural spawning, early development, and the effects of temperature, salinity and prey density on captive ornate gobyIstigobius ornatus(Rüppell, 1830) larval survival

“…Larvae reared at 20 rotifers/ml until 7 dph had significantly higher survival (over 50%) than those fed the other densities. Similar results were obtained in other studies with marine gobies (Majoris et al, ; Meirelles et al, ; Pedrazzani et al, ). Successful larviculture of I. hoshinonis and I. campbelli have been reported by Shiobara and Suzuki (), but the prey density useful for larviculture has not yet been presented.…”

“…Fishes of the family Gobiidae have great potential for the aquarium trade because of their diverse colours, peaceful behaviours and ease of domestication and adaptation to commercial feed and home aquaria (Darcy, ; Olivotto et al, ; Shei, Mies, & Olivotto, ). Recent years have seen increased attention given to the study of reproduction, morphology and larval rearing of marine ornamental gobies compared with the past (Archambeault et al, ; Majoris, Franciscoa, Atemaa, & Buston, ; Meirelles, Tsuzuki, Ribeiro, Medeiros, & Silva, ; Olivotto et al, ; Pedrazzani, Pham, Lin, & Neto, ; Sunobe, ; Wittenrich, Turingan, & Creswell, ).…”

“…Rotifers are widely used as the diet for feeding many commercially sold marine ornamental fish species because they can easily be cultured in large quantities and high densities (Leu et al, ). Many studies have reported the application of rotifers in larval rearing experiments of other marine ornamental gobies (Majoris et al, ; Meirelles et al, ; Olivotto et al, ; Pedrazzani et al, ; Shei, Miranda‐Filho, Rodrigues, & Sampaio, ), but few attempts have been made to quantitatively assess their use as food for the larval rearing of Istigobius sp. or identify the optimal rotifer feeding level for I. ornatus .…”

The effects of salinity on reproductive development and egg and larvae survival in the spotted scat Scatophagus argus under controlled conditions

“…A critical consequence of such planktonic stages in euryhaline fish is that embryos and larvae need to adapt to external factors, including the salinity (Nissling, Johansson, & Jacobsson, ). Deviations from optimal salinity can have various lethal and sublethal effects on fish gametes and embryos (Nowosad et al, ; Okamoto et al, ; Pedrazzani, Pham, Lin, & Neto, ). By influencing the energy required for osmoregulation, salinity directly affects the efficiency of yolk utilization, embryonic development and survival (Nissling et al, ).…”

The real Nemo movie: Description of embryonic development inAmphiprion ocellarisfrom first division to hatching

“… 11 , 14 , 32 , 36 These well‐defined stages provide a framework for testing hypotheses of homologies within the various processes that occur during the embryonic development of teleost fishes. We observed interesting morphological differences between the embryos of false clownfish and other teleost species, whether they are aquaculture species (the sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax , 34 the turbot Scophtalmus maximus , 37 the batfish Platax teira 38 ), other coral reef fish (the damselfish Neopomacentrus cyanomus , 19 the dottybacks Pseudochromis dilecticus , 17 the mandarinfish Synchiropus splendidus , 39 the goby Elacatinus puncticulatus , 40 several angelfishes of the genus Centropyge 18 , 41 ) or other fish models (the stickleback G aculeatus , the salmonid Coregonus clupeaformis , 12 the gadid Trisopterus luscus , 42 the wrasse Labrus bergylta 43 ). These include the shape of the yolk/chorion, different early chromatophore patterns, and variation in developmental timing.…”