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Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras - INVEMAR
Print version ISSN 0122-9761
Abstract
GONZALEZ, Leo W. and LUGO, Thais. OVOGENESIS OF LUTJANUS PURPUREUS POEY, 1867 (PISCES: LUTJANIDAE) IN EASTERN VENEZUELA. Bol. Invest. Mar. Cost. [online]. 1997, vol.26, n.1, pp.53-60. ISSN 0122-9761.
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: Previtelogénesis 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.