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Analyses of bottom trawl samples and feeding experiments in the laboratory revealed a reproduction period ranging from late March to early August in Eledone cirrosa of the Catalonian Sea (Western Mediterranean). The embryonic development, studies for the first time on eggs laid in the laboratory, shows no basic difference from that of other Octopodidae. The newly hatched animals are planktonic; morphologically, this feature is expressed by a relatively small arm-length.
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Mangold, K., von Boletzky, S. & Frösch, D. Reproductive biology and embryonic development of Eledone cirrosa (Cephalopoda: Octopoda). Marine Biology 8, 109–117 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00350926
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