Life cycle of the marbled octopus, Amphioctopus aegina
JARUWAT NABHITABHATA 2011
JARUWAT NABHITABHATA 2011
e a highenergy consumption and require live food of specific size range characteristics, causing difficulties in obtaining appropriatefood organisms for rearing experiments through the entire life cycle. This study obtained information on details of lifecycle characteristics of Amphioctopus aegina (Gray) by resolving these difficulties. The aspects of life cycle of A. aeginawere similar to those of other benthic octopus with a similar reproductive strategy. ... A. aegina is thesecond benthic octopus species with planktonic hatchlings for which the life cycle has been completed through rearing inthe laboratory ...