Energy depletion of embryos and yolk-sac feeding larvae of the liparid snailfish Careproctus pallidus (Vaillant 1888)

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Bruno, Daniel Osvaldo, Rojo, Javier Hernán, Boy, Claudia Clementina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: BEAGLE CHANNEL; ENERGY CONTENT; ONTOGENY; SNAILFISH; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Austral; Argentina; Hernán; Antártida; Polar Biology; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/117139

The snailfish, Careproctus pallidus, is a liparid fish that spawns within the branchial chambers of the king crab Lithodes santolla and develops its embryonic stages inside the chambers until it forms a well-developed free-living yolk-sac feeding larvae hatch. The aim of this work was to explore the...