Mating in the Japanese rice-fish (4)

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species
Oryzias latipes

Key Words
Japanese rice-fish
mating
sperm release




2003/12/17 submitted



Animalia >Chordata >Osteichthyes >Beloniformes >Adrianichthyidae >Oryzias >

After the two fish bump each other around their lower flank (twice), a wisp of sperm cloud is released (in the lower right). The sperm cloud is very thin and is very difficult to see. This file is a MPG file of anout 530 KB.
This video picture is a part of home pages "School of the Japanese rice-fish" and "Mating and hatching".
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kazu/ym/ (translated by Asoh)

(Data No.momo031216un09b)

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