cavity brooder
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mouth brooder — oral brooder (a fish which broods or protects the eggs (ovophile) or young (larvophile) by taking them into the mouth). This reproductive guild (q.v.) includes those fish that mouth brood without buccal feeding and those that buccal feed the… … Dictionary of ichthyology
external brooder — an ecological group comprising a series of reproductive guilds (q.v.) where the eggs are transferred to some structure on the fish for incubation. Structures vary from the mouth and gill cavity to specialised marsupia … Dictionary of ichthyology
gill chamber brooder — a reproductive guild (q.v.) where eggs are incubated in the gill cavity, e.g. the cave fish Amblyopsis spelea … Dictionary of ichthyology
shelter brooder — a general term for cavity brooders and mouth brooders, q.v … Dictionary of ichthyology
transfer brooder — a reproductive guild (q.v.) where the eggs are carried in some fashion before deposition in cupped pelvic fins, inside the body cavity or in a cluster depending from the genital pore. After deposition these type is most similar to non guarding… … Dictionary of ichthyology
Starfish — For other uses, see Starfish (disambiguation). Asteroidea redirects here. For the Asteraceae subfamily, see Asteroideae. Sea Stars Temporal range: Ordovician–Recent … Wikipedia
Queensland lungfish — Temporal range: 100–0 Ma … Wikipedia
Temnospondyli — Temnospondyls Temporal range: Early Carboniferous Early Cretaceous, 330–120 Ma Possible descendant taxon Lissamphibia survives to present … Wikipedia
