TY - JOUR AU - Koussovi, Guillaume AU - Adjahouinou, Clément Dogbè AU - Niass, Farokh AU - Diédhiou, Papa Madiallacké AU - Bonou, Clément Agossou AU - Montchowui, Elie PY - 2021/05/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Reproduction and embryonic development in the African freshwater prawn Macrobrachium macrobrachion (Herklots, 1851) JF - International Journal of Aquatic Biology JA - Intl. J. Aquat. Biol. VL - 9 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.22034/ijab.v9i3.1079 UR - https://ij-aquaticbiology.com/index.php/ijab/article/view/1079 SP - 148-158 AB - The current study aimed to determine parameters and conditions for successful reproduction of <em>Macrobrachium macrobrachion</em> (Herklots, 1851) in a controlled medium and describing its embryonic development. A total of 122 adult specimens were collected from the delta of Ouémé River and stored in polyethylene tanks with 1:2 male-female sex ratio. This broodstock was fed on pelleted food (Biomar Efico) once a day. For the embryogeny monitoring, eggs were sampled each hour through the first two days after spawning and then every 2 hours till hatching. Spawning happened at a mean temperature, dissolved oxygen concentration and pH of 27.80±0.56°C, 5.83±0.45 mg/L and 7.41±0.34, respectively. The eggs incubation meantime was 12±1 days with nine main embryonic development stages. Hatching lasted on the average 21.00±1.94 h and led to larvae with a mean size of 2.30±0.90 mm. Mean fecundity was 13062.4±5489.93 eggs and 14715.2±6108 eggs, respectively for the first and second seasons with a highly significant difference between them. The best hatching rates were obtained with salinities equal to 2 and 4"°. The results constitute the first database for larval breeding of <em>M. macrobrachion </em>species. ER -