Life Cycle & Reproduction
7 entries in the Diagonal butterflyfish compendium.
Amphiprion ocellarisBorn male, promoted by death, guarding eggs no one else will touch.Gadus morhuaA winter-spawning giant whose buoyant eggs drift the North Atlantic current like a million tiny lanterns.Limulus polyphemusA ten-year odyssey from beach egg to tidal spawning, written in molts and moonlight.Hippocampus reidiA tiny, tail-anchored father of the Hawaiian shallows, guarding his brood in a bony pouch.Manta alfrediOne pup, one year, one reef—slow, solitary, and irreplaceable.Carcharodon carchariasA slow, yolk-fuelled gestation that births the ocean's most feared predator.Sphyrna mokarranFifteen months of darkness in the womb, then a litter of hammerheads bursts into the shallows.
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