androdiaulic
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androdiaulic (not comparable)
- (biology) Having two reproductive duct systems, one for the delivery of sperm, and the other for receiving sperm and depositing eggs.
- 1964, Michael T. Ghiselin, Reproductive Function and the Evolution of Opisthobranch Gastropods:
- In androdiaulic and triaulic forms the movement of sperm is largely by muscular action, but the function of congealing the sperm into a more or less unitary mass is retained by the prostate.
- 2010, Janet Leonard, Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals, →ISBN, page 157:
- Two other species of Ringicula have either an incomplete separation of the female and male ducts or a complete separation, becoming an androdiaulic system (see below).
- 2012, Arthur Giese, Reproduction of Marine Invertebrates, →ISBN:
- All of the nudibranchs seem to be derived from notaspidean-like stock with androdiaulic reproductive systems.