Mating in the Japanese rice-fish (5)

(0.8MB, 00:00:16)

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 cloud of sperm is released (in the top center). After a while, the female releases eggs. This is a MPG file of about 870 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.momo031216un10b)

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