Fertility of Indo-Pacific Octopus kagoshimensis (Cephalopoda, Octopodidae) males and females in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
Articles > Article ยท 2005
Authors: A Salman, Mehmet Alp SALMAN, T KATAGAN
ZOOLOGICHESKY ZHURNAL, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2005, vol 84, pp 269-271
Summary
Octopus kagoshimensis Ortmann 1888 is a recent Lessepian migrant from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean. Males produce at least six giant spermatophores (94.4-161.8%). Female fecundity is 3000-7000 small eggs, the development of which in the ovary is asynchronous. The largest measured yolk oocyte in a follicle was of 4 mm. This species appears to show an intermittent spawning as another small octopus with small eggs, O. chierchiae (Rodaniche 1984).