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What Are Ovoviviparous Animals?

Ovoviviparous animals reproduce by forming eggs inside the female's body, where the embryo develops until it is ready to hatch. Unlike oviparous animals, whose eggs are laid and then incubated, ovoviviparous animals retain the eggs in their bodies until shortly before hatching. Some examples include certain species of sharks, snakes, and rays.

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What Are Ovoviviparous Animals?

Ovoviviparous animals reproduce by forming eggs inside the female's body, where the embryo develops until it is ready to hatch. Unlike oviparous animals, whose eggs are laid and then incubated, ovoviviparous animals retain the eggs in their bodies until shortly before hatching. Some examples include certain species of sharks, snakes, and rays.

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What are ovoviviparous animals?

In biology, ovoviviparous animals are those whose mechanism


Reproduction consists of the formation of eggs inside the womb of the
female, where the embryo matures until it is close to hatching, and only
then they are deposited or expelled from the body of the progenitor.

Thus, ovoviviparity is found, in a way, halfway between the mode of


reproduction of oviparous and viviparous organisms, that is to say, it is something intermediate
between ordinary egg laying and giving birth. This is because the animals
of this type develop inside an egg, but said egg does not leave the
maternal body only a few moments before hatching.

This type of reproductive mechanism is common among invertebrate species, but


also among some species of reptiles and fish. But in all cases
internal fertilization occurs, that is, during copulation the male introduces
in the female body her genetic material.

Depending on the relationship established between the mother's body and the
egg in which the embryo develops, we can classify animals
ovoviviparous in:

Those whose embryos are nourished throughout the entire gestation process.
starting from the egg yolk, without requiring any type of maternal food.
Those whose embryos exhaust the energy content of the egg and
they require the supply of nutrients from the mother's body, in the form of ova
without fertilization or uterine secretions.

Characteristics of ovoviviparous animals


Ovoviviparous animals are characterized as follows:

Its reproductive mechanism involves internal fertilization and the subsequent


retention of the egg in a specialized duct within its tract
reproductive. This means that, instead of laying their eggs and then
hatch them, as birds do, these animals hatch them inside their
body and release them when the chick is about to break the shell.
This process is very similar in appearance to that of viviparous animals, which give birth to live young.
and formed from the offspring, but unlike them, ovoviviparous animals do not form
placenta, since the nutrition of the offspring generally depends on the
contents of the egg. That is, there is no placenta and umbilical cord.
that connects the mother with the offspring.
The eggs of ovoviviparous animals are much larger and have a shell.
thinner than those of the oviparous, which allows in some species
that, upon being expelled from the mother's body, the egg cracks and the offspring
go free into the environment.
Examples of ovoviviparous animals
Some examples of ovoviviparous animals are the following:

Different species of sharks, such as Squalus.


acanthias (known as galludo, mielga, or tollo de cacho), reproduce
ovoviviparously: the fertilized eggs hatch early inside
from the female oviduct, and the young feed on its contents and from the
secretions of the maternal body until they are fully expelled and
formed.
Certain vipers and snakes, such as the asp (Vipera aspis), typical of Europe,
they reproduce in an ovoviviparous manner, expelling the live young along with
the remnants of the hatched egg from the maternal body, when they are already
ripe
Most species of rays (rajiformes or rayiformes)
they expel the young from the mother’s body once the egg is about to
hatching, so that they give the appearance of "giving birth". In other
species, the eggs are expelled early and adhere to the
plants and rocks using a sticky substance.
The amphibian species Limnonectes larvaepartus, a type of frog endemic to
Indonesia is one of the few examples of viviparous amphibians, whose
fertilization is internal and, once they emerge from the egg, the tadpoles are
directly expelled into the water by the mother's body.

Oviparous animals

Oviparous animals are those that reproduce by laying eggs.


eggs. They are the most numerous animals on the planet, and can reproduce
through internal fertilization (the male fertilizes the female directly), or
external (male and female release their gametes and fertilization occurs in the medium
environment).

In both cases, once fertilization has taken place and the egg has been laid, the
parents have nothing to do with the nutrition of the embryo, which depends on
the contents of the egg itself.

Most insects, fish, amphibians, birds, and various invertebrates


belong to this classification.

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