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Early Ontogeny of the Climbing Perch Anabas testudineus (Anabantidae) in Relation to the Buoyancy Dynamics

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This article describes early development of the climbing perch Anabas testudineus in relation to its buoyancy dynamics. Main patterns of the ontogeny during the first 140 h of development are described. The climbing perch is characterized by positive buoyancy of eggs and early larvae not usually found in other freshwater fish. This allows the fish development close to the surface of the water and is enabled by a large oil globule in the yolk. The data on the spatial orientation of the larva body, their vertical distribution in the water column, the beginning of exogenous feeding and locomotion, and the fright reaction of the larvae at different ages are presented. The most significant changes in the behavior of the climbing perch larvae are associated with changing the shape of the yolk sac, beginning to function as a provisional hydrostatic organ from about the 80s hour of development.

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  1. Some researchers allocate a separate order Anabantiformes (Ruggieroetal., 2015; Betancur-Retal., 2017).

  2. During the experiment, the transfer of fish to a mixed diet was noted. However, for the entire period after hatching, the term “larva” is used in the work.

  3. Here and below: outside the brackets is the median; in parentheses, the limits of variation of the indicator.

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We are grateful to Đinh Thị Hải Yến and Võ Thị Hà (Coastal Branch of Vietnam–Russian Tropical Center) for their help in work organizing and implementation.

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The study was performed in the framework of the “Ecolan E-3.2” topic, “Reproduction, Reproductive and Feeding Behavior of Anabantid Fishes” section of the Tropical Research and Technological Center.

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Dzerzhinskiy, K.F., Zworykin, D.D. & Budaev, S.V. Early Ontogeny of the Climbing Perch Anabas testudineus (Anabantidae) in Relation to the Buoyancy Dynamics. J. Ichthyol. 59, 766–775 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945219050023

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