New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Mating behaviour and egg laying in captive rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae)

J. L. McKoy

Fisheries Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, P.O. Box 19062, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Mating and egg laying behaviour of specimens of rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii (Hutton), were observed in aquaria. Mating occurred within 6 weeks of a female moult and egg laying took place within a few hours of mating. The pattern of precopulatory behaviour, mating, and egg laying has many similar features to that reported for Panulirus homarus. Accounts of mating and egg laying in /. lalandii are conflicting, some showing similarities with /. edwardsii and others, major differences.

New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 1979, 13 (3): 407-413
Received 26 July 1978; revision received 17 April 1979 Fisheries Research Division Publication 373

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