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Tegula pfeifferi Top Shell Broadcast Spawning

This is a female Pfeiffer's top shell (Tegula pfeifferi) engaged in broadcast spawning. Individuals of this species often move to an elevated position prior to spawning. When they are ready to broadcast gametes, the female gastropods raise themselves at an incline and eject eggs in a a series of foreceful pulses. Photographed in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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This is a female Pfeiffer's top shell (Tegula pfeifferi) engaged in broadcast spawning. Individuals of this species often move to an elevated position prior to spawning. When they are ready to broadcast gametes, the female gastropods raise themselves at an incline and eject eggs in a a series of foreceful pulses. Photographed in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.