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(Ref. 6733) FB-Migration-1769 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Christine Papasissi 1990-10-24 00:00:00 2025-11-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1769 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Diadromous. Regularly migrating between freshwater and seawater. This category includes anadromous, catadromous and amphidromous fishes such as sea-lampreys, sturgeons, salmons, Anguilla, Alosa, etc. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km. Ordeix, M. and F. Casals 2024 Why and when do freshwater fish migrate? Observations of migration patterns of the native fishes from the Iberian Peninsula (SW Europe). Limnetica 43(1):9-28. (Ref. 138297) FB-LifeCycle-1769 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 1990-10-24 00:00:00 2025-11-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=1769&StockCode=1965 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Females lay 10-60 eggs into a brood pouch on ventral surface of tail of males. Males fertilize the eggs as they enter the pouch. Eggs incubate in the male´s brood pouch for about 20-32 days, depending of temperature. (Ref.59043). Sokolov, L.I. and L.S. Berdicheskii 1989 Acipenseridae. p. 150-153. In J. Holcík (ed.) The freshwater fishes of Europe. Vol. 1, Part II. General introduction to fishes Acipenseriformes. AULA-Verlag Wiesbaden. 469 p. 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