Friday, March 21, 2014

The Egg-Laying Nudibranch

Photo: Purple-and-white nudibranch laying eggs



Egg-Laying Nudibranch


Nudibranchs are hermaphroditic, carrying both male and female reproductive organs. Mating pairs fertilize one another and lay up to two million eggs in coils, ribbons, or tangled clumps, as this purple-painted Hypselodoris is doing.
















(source:google/http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/)

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