Open AccessOVOGENESIS DE LUTJANUS PURPUREUS POEY, 1867 (PISCES: LUTJANIDAE) DE LA REGION ORIENTAL DE VENEZUELA
Author(s) -
Leticia Espinosa González,
Thais Lugo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
boletin de investigaciones marinas y costeras/boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2590-4671
pISSN - 0122-9761
DOI - 10.25268/bimc.invemar.1997.26.0.363
Subject(s) - lutjanidae , biology , yolk , stingray , fishery , oogenesis , zoology , fish <actinopterygii> , embryogenesis , embryo
The purpose of this paper is the study of oogenesis in the red snapper, Lutjanus purpureus from the Venezuela eastern region. Bassed on histological descriptions the oogenesis is the egg development in ovaries and have two phases: Previtelogenesis of three stages characterized by changes in nucleus and Vitelogenesis have four stages distinguished by citoplasmatic accumulation of nutritive inclusions per yolk vesicles, oil droppets and yolk granules. The ovarian development is non syncrhonic typical the tropicals marines fishes.