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Animalia >Chordata >Unidentified >Scorpaeniformes >Cyclopteroidea >Eumicrotremus >

Territorial males (T-males) maintained territories within the artificial spawning substrate (PVC pipe caps), and courted approaching females by wiggling their caudal fin above or within the substrate. The females entered and exited the T-male's territory several times, those responding positively to courtship spawning benthic sessile egg masses within the spawning substrate, and departing immediately thereafter. Soon after female spawning, the T-male released sperm toward the eggs, pushing the latter deep into the substrate. Subsequently, the T-males stayed within the substrate and protected the eggs by hiding them with their bodies.

(Data No.momo241031et01b)

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