Talk:Spawn (biology)

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Did you know... that fish ladders are constructed so that salmon can navigate past hydroelectric dams on their way to spawn?

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Types of Egg-Layers

Egg Scatters
Next Builders
Egg Hangers
MouthBreeders
Egg Buriers

Spawn Cycle

Egg

Alevin

A newly-hatched fish in the larval stage, one which has not yet emerged from the nesting area. Alevins will have a noticable yolk sac, and need this yolk sac while their digestive system is developed. At this stage, the fish is not prepared to hunt live prey, and is completely dependent on the yolk.

Fry

A 'fry'is a recently-hatched fish, but one which has fully absorbed its yolk sac and can now hunt and consume live food.

Parr

A 'parr' is a juvenile fish, especially one preparing to leave the fresh water of its home.

Smolt

A smolt is a juvenile fish. This is the stage where Salmonid grow scales and begin their trek to their salt water environment.And they mostly travel at night to avoid prediters.

Grilse

A young fish which is returning to its spawning grounds at a very young age.

Other Info

.. but then I kinda got sidetracked and lost momentum. Also, I don't know a damned hting about any of this stuff. Any marine Biologists here? (Unsigned by User:Bishopolis)

I know very litle about the subject, but I think the best way to get this going is to just put it in the article. It will make more people see it and start expanding. Shanes 04:06, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Done. Shanes 04:13, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Needs expansion[edit]

This is a great start, but this article needs some greater expansion! — Catherine\^talk 23:24, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have just moved the article, to broaden the scope, but am finding it very difficult to find any information on this subject. The information already within the article (excluding the intro) seems to be mostly related to salmon, and definitely doesn't apply to amphibians. I am thinking this article is more suitable for Wikitionary than Wikipedia. Thanks. --liquidGhoul 15:25, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rename and/or split[edit]

Most of this article covers the procss of spawning in fish (even after i trimmed that section). I think many readers searching for spawn will expect a page on spawn itself (the "eggs"), especially as just about every child in Europe and the US will do projects on frogspawn at some point. Hence i think this page should be renamed to "Spawning (biology)", with various types of spawn as subsection. Sections can then be spun off as they grow.Yob Mod 14:21, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. "Spawn" is separate from "spawning" and this article is about spawning. 24.107.13.228 (talk) 19:29, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Guppies[edit]

Guppies are ovoviviparous and therefore do not "deposit large quantities of eggs in water" as the page describes. Is then the picture of a guppy fry at the bottom of the page, perhaps, misleading? 99.199.121.228 (talk) 11:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spawning strategies[edit]

To the main editors of this article:

This is a remark regarding my modification of this article, that I did on 22:28, 2011 March 5.

I seldom modify any article/section that I have not started myself, with the exception of adding internal links or properly referenced information. Instead, I prefer to discuss the intended modification in the discussion page and let the main authors to decide what to do. In the case of this article, to which I arrived while trying to add an internal link to broadcast spawning in this article about wrasses, I decided to modify first because I found that there were already orphan definitions (see previous version, at the end of Spawning strategies) that I merged into the proper section of the article.

I hope not to have caused a greater mess. If you revert, please find a way to include the definitions that were already present but orphan (Broadcast spawners, Egg scatterers, Egg depositers, Cavity spawners), and if possible, make me know of the changes so I can modify or improve the references to broadcast spawning.

Thanks and congratulations for the interesting article.

Pmronchi (talk) 23:03, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Edit[edit]

Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I added a hyperlink for Amphiprion ocellaris into your article. I am a part of a Behavioral Ecology Class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Washington_University_in_St._Louis/Behavioral_Ecology_%28Fall_2013%29) Washington University and our assignment was to create hyperlinks from our articles to other articles as examples. Best of luck with your article!! Gseehra123 (talk) 22:22, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Too many copy-paste quotations = plagiarism[edit]

There are far too many direct quotes from Fishes, An Introduction to Ichthyology. 5th Ed, Benjamin Cummings. ISBN 978-0-13-100847-2. Full paragraphs are not acceptable, and need to be rewritten or removed.--Animalparty-- (talk) 21:35, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes indeed... you are right. Completely excessive. I must have forgotten those quotes needed paraphrasing, and went off to do something else. I've removed the quotes and will reinstate them shortly in a paraphrased form. --Epipelagic (talk) 06:39, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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