external brooder

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. 2009.

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