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On the Reproduction and Development of the Conger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. T. Cunningham
J. T. Cunningham
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Naturalist to the Association.
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Before the Laboratory of the Association was built, it had often been observed in other aquaria that female conger after living for some time in captivity, feeding regularly and voraciously, and growing with considerable rapidity, passed into a swollen and apparently gravid condition and then died. Such conger when dissected after death were invariably found to contain enormously developed ovaries or roes, which entirely filled up and distended the abdominal cavity, and pressed the intestine and other abdominal organs into as small a space as possible. The following are the principal records of cases in which this has been observed.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , May 1891 , pp. 16 - 42
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1891

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page 16 note * Beobachtungen über die Lebensweise einiger Seethiere innerhalb der Aquarien der Zoologischen Station, Mittheil. aus der Zoolog. Station zu Neapel., Band i, 1879, p. 492.

page 16 note † Beobachtungen über Trächtigkeits- und Eiablage-perioden verschiedener Seethiere, Mitt. Zoolog. Stat. Neapel., Band i, 1879, p. 135.

page 17 note * Untersuchungen über die Geschlechtsorgane einiger Muraenoiden, Mitt. Zool. Stat. Neapel., Band ii, p. 415.

page 18 note * My knowledge of the investigations of Syrski and Jacoby is derived from a translation of Jacoby's work on The Eel Question, in the Report of the U.S Commissioner of Fisheries for 1879. Washington, 1882

page 34 note * See Nature, vol. xlii, p. 654, 1890.Google Scholar

page 35 note * Mitt. Zool. Stat. Neap., Bnd. viii.