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Uploaded by on Jul 15, 2009

Female Lysiosquillina maculata brooding her eggs. The female is 33 cm long and the eggs are a day old. She shares the burrow with her mate who is guarding the other entrance.

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  • The femalepicks them up frequently to clean and aerate them and moves them around the burrow as necessary. When the larvae hatch, they become positively phototaxic and swim out of the burrow. It appears that the male who sits in the burrow entrance may help them leave by creating flushing currents. In at least one other lysiosquilloid, Pullosquilla, the male as well as the female helps care for the eggs.

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  • they look like a flowty mold

  • Where do the eggs hatch? Does the female hold onto them until they do or will she , at one point, move them off to a seperate area?

  • CREEPY SACK!

  • Thos are eggs? WOAH

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