| 31. | They belong to the family syngnathidae and are brood pouch ( in this genus located under the tail ).
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| 32. | In a few species, females nurse their eggs in small folds on the outside of their bodies called brood pouches.
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| 33. | Its size expands as the number of embryos increases . " Tarebia granifera " has 1-77 embryos in its brood pouch.
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| 34. | The eggs, which average at 40 per female, are incubated for about 5 days at 22C in the female's brood pouch.
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| 35. | The sperm that swim into the brood pouches in search of eggs are lured by powerful chemicals released by the female.
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| 36. | Mode : dioecism, fertilization : in brood pouch or similar structure, and gestation period is 14 15 days depending on temperature.
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| 37. | Included in Syngnathidae are seahorses, the pipefish, and the ichthyologists to display male pregnancy, even those without an external brood pouch.
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| 38. | There is also variation in Syngnathid pouch complexity with brood pouches ranging from simple ventral gluing areas to fully enclosed pouches.
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| 39. | In mature females, brood pouches formed by extensions of the coxae ( oostegites ) are present on the third and fourth pereonites.
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| 40. | The male has a brood pouch into which several females deposit clutches of about twenty eggs and where the eggs are fertilised.
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