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How do fishes reproduce?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Most fish reproduce using external fertilisation - the female lays her eggs, and the male then covers them with sperm, fertilising them. Some fish, however, use internal fertilisation. Sharks are an example. Males sharks have paired copulatory organs called claspers, one of which is inserted into the female's cloaca, depositing sperm inside her. In some species, eggs are then laid and will hatch after an incubation period, but in others the eggs are retained within the mother's body until the young are fully developed, when they are born alive.

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