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- Title
Biometrical relationships in developing eggs and neonates of Octopus vulgaris in relation to parental diet.
- Authors
Márquez, Lorenzo; Quintana, Daniel; Lorenzo, Antonio; Almansa, Eduardo
- Abstract
Captive Octopus vulgaris adults were fed three mono-diets based on pilchard, crab and squid and allowed to grow until reproduction under controlled temperature. Spawns from each dietary treatment were isolated, and the embryonic development, egg length, width and wet weight, in addition to neonate dry weight, dorsal mantle length and ventral mantle length were monitored. Pilchard-diet spawns developed faster in terms of thermal time. Initial egg wet weight was higher for squid and crab diets. Irrespective of the parental diet, eggs passed through a swelling process so that egg width and wet weight increased in a nonlinear way, whereas egg length was left nearly unaffected. Egg length and initial wet weight showed a high correlation with neonate dry weight. Egg length, even at advanced incubation, can be used as a good proxy for neonate dry weight, this fact having potential implications for the ecological and aquaculture research on O. vulgaris.
- Subjects
BIOMETRY; COMMON octopus; MOLLUSK eggs; MOLLUSKS; EMBRYOLOGY; SARDINOPS sagax; FOOD
- Publication
Helgoland Marine Research, 2013, Vol 67, Issue 3, p461
- ISSN
1438-387X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10152-012-0335-y