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  • This is a female Radulinopsis derjavini sculpin hatching her clutch of eggs by agitating them with her mouth. Females of this genus tend to their eggs, using their specialized mouths to suck or vacuum water across the developing juveniles to aerate them. In other sculpin genuses, males take responsibility for nurturing eggs.
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  • This is a female Radulinopsis derjavini sculpin hatching her clutch of eggs by agitating them with her mouth. Females of this genus tend to their eggs, using their specialized mouths to suck or vacuum water across the developing juveniles to aerate them. In other sculpin genuses, males take responsibility for nurturing eggs.
    radulinopsis-derjavini-sculpin-eggs-...tif
  • This is a close-up view of a female Radulinopsis derjavini sculpin, showing her specialized wide-mouth, which is used to aerate developing eggs by sucking water over and around them. This female had just finished hatching a clutch of eggs. Photographed at two times life-size magnification.
    radulinopsis-derjavini-sculpin-japan...tif
  • This is a female Radulinopsis derjavini sculpin attending to a clutch of eggs that are on the brink of hatching. Females of this species extend their mouths to suck on the eggs in order to clean and aerate them. The eggs hatched about 15 minutes after this photo was taken.
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  • This is a female Radulinopsis derjavini sculpin with a clutch of eggs that are in the process of hatching. The juveniles are only a few millimeters in size. Some of the newly hatched fish can be viewed at 100% magnification.
    radulinopsis-derjavini-sculpin-hatch...tif
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