Unknown: L II A1

Unknown

Egg diameter in µm	Number of oil globules	Diameter of oil globule in µm	Yolk texture	Perivitelline space	Position of oil globule at hatch	Gut length   at eye- pigment stage	Myomeres
1200-1415	1	205-220	clear	moderate	stern	53% of NL	ca 24

Egg: When fresh, the yolk measures 71-82% of egg diameter, and the early embryo is lightly dusted with fine black dots. These intensify to form a dark embryo,  but the clear oil globule remains devoid of pigment (A & A1). Incubation is about 50 hours. One egg of only 960µm diameter, has been included here.

Larva: The yolksac larva retains the pigment seen in the egg, none of which moves into the finfolds (B). The black/white/black banding of the 3-day larva is distinctive (C). B: 1day, C: 3 days (24°C).

One hatched larva has been barcoded, but no match has been found among adult sequences (BOLD reference). Its position in the barcode tree suggests it may be a species of Platax.

Linked samples	Offshore	Inshore
Eggs	10	4
Hits	5	3

The data on seasonal spawning off Park Rynie, is confused, since there appears to be a summer spawning period, and scattered winter collections of this egg (blue graph). Note however that the most eggs seen in a sample, is 5. The egg was not seen in the DHM samples. It was only seen off Park Rynie on 11 occasions in the study; and only 8 times in the Park Rynie linked samples. This small data set had 71% of eggs in offshore samples. See Section 7.3 and Table 1 of the Introductory Notes, for more information on the linked samples.