Meanings
- not comparablebiologyHaving two reproductive duct systems, one for the delivery of sperm, and the other for receiving sperm and depositing eggs.
All of the nudibranchs seem to be derived from notaspidean-like stock with androdiaulic reproductive systems.
2012, Arthur Giese, Reproduction of Marine Invertebrates, →ISBN2 more examples
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.
1964, Michael T. Ghiselin, Reproductive Function and the Evolution of Opisthobranch GastropodsTwo 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).
2010, Janet Leonard, Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals, →ISBN, page 157
Origin
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