Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet AMPLEXUS

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• A male approaches a female and clasps her from behind her forearms before hooking his thumbs together in a hold called "amplexus", which is continued until the female deposits the eggs.
• This is used to froth the water during amplexus to create the floating foamy nest that it lays eggs in, which is roughly the size of a human palm.
• Paul reassessed the material as pertaining to a large species of Allosaurus in 1988 (which he classified as Allosaurus amplexus).
• In mating season, the males develop black nuptial pads that enable them to cling to the females' backs during amplexus.
• Abergasilus amplexus is a species of parasitic copepod endemic to euryhaline habitats in New Zealand.
• Like other species within the Hylidae family, the knife-footed frog breeds in pectoral amplexus, where the male grasps the female by the armpits from behind in order to fertilise her eggs.
• Pleurodema somuncurense reproduces in the mid-spring and summer months through amplexus events, with males clasping on females from the back.
• Polyandrous mating is more likely among smaller males, as large males can monopolize and dominate the female during amplexus.
• This is the only known Old World frog species where the male and female do not engage in amplexus, the mating behaviour in which the male frog grasps the female round the body and fertilizes the eggs as they are laid.
• Because males stay near one internode, females are presumed to be polyandrous and move from one internode to the next with amplexus occurring inside the internode.
• Because male Breviceps frogs are smaller than their female counterparts, amplexus is not possible; however mating pairs glue themselves together using excretions from holocrine glands on the ventrum of the male and similar glands on the dorsum of the back of the female.
• The males have an internal vocal sac and one of more corneous spines on the thumps and sometimes on the chest that helps the male to grasp the female during the amplexus.
• The species name, amplexicaulis, is new Latin meaning the base surrounds the stem (amplexus: to entwine or embrace + i + caulis: a stem or cabbage).

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