Unknown: L III B8

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
865-925	1	220-250	clear	narrow	stern	37% of NL	24-26

Egg: There are pretty, stellate, yellow pigment spots on the oil globule. Yellow dots on the embryo, have a pattern which leave a pale line down the centre of the embryo (A). Black pigment has the same pattern on the embryo, but is stellate and ventral on the oil globule. The oil globule is clear. Incubation is 35-40 hours.

Larva: The rather intricate pattern of yellow on the 2-day larva, rapidly disappears, except in the trunk of the 4-day larva (C & D), while the gut becomes capped with black pigment.  B: 2 day, C: 4 days, D: 6 days (22°C).

This egg and larva appears identical to Dichistius multifasciatus (FIIIA2A), except for the segmented yolk of the latter, and may be an example where segmentation of the yolk is unreliable as an identifying character, or sometimes feint enough to be overlooked. No larval DNA barcoding sequences are currently available for this egg.

This egg was rarely seen off Park Rynie. Winter was the main spawning season (blue graph).

linked samples	Offshore	Inshore
Eggs	7	10
Hits	5	4

The Park Rynie linked samples showed slightly more of these eggs inshore, but numbers are too low to be meaningful. See Section 7.3 and Table 1 of the Introductory Notes, for more information on the linked samples.