Egg Characteristics of Menidia menidia
 
Main Ref. Scotton, L.N., R.E. Smith, N.S. Smith, K.S. Price and D.P. de Sylva, 1973
Place of Development on the bottom (demersal)
Shape of Egg spherical
Attributes with filaments, sticky
Color of Eggs
Color of Oil Globule
Additional Characters Filaments cause the eggs to stick together in sheets. In a mass, the eggs are yellowish green, but singly, they are semitransparent (Ref. 39018). There are 5-12 large oil globules and numerous small ones (Ref. 39018), which tend to combine into one (Ref. 40852). Vitelline circulatory system in unbrached and looping (Ref. 43413).
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