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Table 144. Summary of Egg Characters in Blennioidea. Blanks indicate data are unavailable. 



Egg Single 



lype' or mass 



Egg diameter 

 (mm) 



Number of 

 oil globules 



Altachmenl 



processes or 



ornamentation 



Pigmentation 



Incubation 

 (days) 



Primary' sources 



Blennioidea 

 Dactyloscopidae 

 Xenocephalidae 

 Notograptidae 

 Tripterygiidae 



Clinidae 



D 



D Mass 



D^ 



0.90-1.40 



0.96-1.7 



Few to 

 numerous 



Several 



Filaments at 

 one pole or 

 everywhere 



Filaments 



Embryo, yolk 

 with "pig- 

 ment 

 spheres'" 



Bathymasteridae 



Stichaeidae 



D 



D 



Mass 



Mass 



0.99-1.1 



1.37-2.5 



Non-adhesive 

 mass 



Adhesive 



Cryptacanthodidae 

 Pholidae 



Anarhichadidae 



P^ilichthyidae 



Zaproridae 



Scytalinidae 



D 

 D 



D 



Mass 



Loose or 

 clumps 



1.8 

 1.4-3.0 



4.0-8.0 



Adhesive 



Dawson, 1982 



16-22 Graham, 1939; Miller 

 et al., 1979; Ruck, 

 1973a; Ruck. 1980; 

 Shiogaki and Dotsu, 

 1973 



12-40 Bamhart, 1932; Pa- 



doa, 1956h; Shiogaki 

 and Dotsu, 1972b; 

 Sparta, 1948; Ste- 

 vens, unpubl. 

 Stephens et al., 1966 

 10 Breder, 1939 



6-6 P Cipria, 1934, 1936; 



Dotsu, 1982; Dotsu 

 and Moriuchi, 

 1980; Dotsu and 

 Oota, 1973; Dutt 

 and Rao, 1960; Eg- 

 gert, 1932; Fishel- 

 son 1963, 1976; 

 Fritzsche, 1978; 

 Hildebrand and Ca- 

 ble, 1938; Lebour, 

 1927; Mito, 1954; 

 Munro, 1955; Peters, 

 1981; Qasim, 1956; 

 Rao, 1970; Stevens 

 and Moser, 1982; 

 Thomson and Ben- 

 nett, 1953; Watson, 

 unpubl.; Wickler, 

 1957 

 13-15 Breder and Rosen, 

 1966; Fitch and 

 Lavenberg, 1975; 

 Matarese, unpubl. 

 2 1 Breder and Rosen, 



1966; Hart, 1973; 

 Marliave, 1975; 

 Matarese, unpubl.; 

 Peppar, 1965; Shio- 

 gaki, 1983; Wourms 

 and Evans, 1974 



Hart, 1973 

 42-70 Breder and Rosen, 

 1966; Marliave, 

 1975; Matarese, un- 

 publ.; Sawyer, 1967 



Barsukov, 1959; Bred- 

 er and Rosen, 1966; 

 Matarese, unpubl. 



I D = demersal. 



^ Ophichni-ovoviparous George and Spnnger (1980). Clmmi-viviparous (Pennth, 1969: Hoese. 1976). 



'Usually 7-14 days. 



