Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Ovoviviparous is the reproductive technique of many animals. It means giving birth to a well developed offspring that has been developed from an egg that has hatched within the mother before giving birth or just after being extruded from the mother. The hatched young receives no metabolic input from the mother, but is in a protected environment. This is used by some fishes, including several sharks, and reptiles, and many invertebrates. See also: oviparous and viviparous. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.