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mouth-breeding or the care and hatching of fertilized eggs in the mouth. Also called buccal incubation and, less aptly, oral gestation, e.g. certain Apogonidae, Ariidae, Anabantidae, Osteoglossidae
Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.
oral incubation
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