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1. (ANNELIDA)Seminal vesicles or testis sacs or spermathecae.2. (MOLLUSCA: Cephalopoda)see spermatangium.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
sperm sacs
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