Gonad Morphology of Rhyacichthys Aspro (Valenciennes, 1837), and the Diagnostic Reproductive Morphology of Gobioid Fishes

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Journal J Morphol

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Anatomy & Histology

Date 2021 Dec 24

PMID 34951741

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Authors

Kathleen S Cole

Lynne R Parenti

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Abstract

Rhyacichthys aspro is a "basal" taxon in the Suborder Gobioidei of the teleost order Gobiiformes. We provide detailed descriptions of the reproductive morphology of adult males and females to assess the diagnostic reproductive morphological characters of this speciose clade of bony fishes. Female R. aspro are asynchronous spawners: they are able to spawn more than once in a breeding season. Oocytes are inferred to have short attachment filaments. A conspicuous feature of the external anatomy of the reproductive system (RSy) of female R. aspro is an ornate fimbriate pad upon which the urogenital papilla rests. The male reproductive system is characterized by an intralobar collection system in both the testicular and secretory lobes, termed the "sperm-collecting canal" and "milt-collecting canal," respectively. These may provide additional storage for sperm and milt. The spermatogenic lobe, or testis, is that portion of the male gobioid RSy comprising seminiferous lobules and separate from other RSy components. The secretory lobe is that portion of the male gobioid reproductive system that consists of secretory lobules and is separated from other components of the male RSy. The secretory lobe has also been called, in English, the sperm-duct gland, accessory gonadal structure, or seminal vesicle, and is endorsed as a synapomorphy of gobioid fishes.

Citing Articles

Gonad morphology of Rhyacichthys aspro (Valenciennes, 1837), and the diagnostic reproductive morphology of gobioid fishes.

Cole K, Parenti L J Morphol. 2021; 283(3):255-272.

PMID: 34951741 PMC: 9303171. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21440.

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