distance. During copulation, the hectocotylus breaks off from the male. The funnel–mantle locking apparatus on the hectocotylus keeps it lodged in the pallial...

approaches a female and begins to caress her with his modified arm, the hectocotylus. A male mates with a female by grabbing her, which sometimes completely...

of most cephalopods develop a specialised arm for sperm delivery, the hectocotylus. Anatomically, cephalopod limbs function using a crosshatch of helical...

females to create their eggcases. The males use a modified arm, the hectocotylus, to transfer sperm to the female. For fertilization, the arm is inserted...

grow after the paralarval stage, and the use of a penis, instead of a hectocotylus. Genus Octopoteuthis Octopoteuthis danae Octopoteuthis deletron Octopoteuthis...

all. As an example, the intromittent organ of most Cephalopoda is the hectocotylus, a specialized arm, and male spiders use their pedipalps. Even within...

When octopuses reproduce, the male uses a specialised arm called a hectocotylus to transfer spermatophores (packets of sperm) from the terminal organ...

meters. Male with attached hectocotylus that has broken free from its sac Cut-away drawing of the viscera Details of the hectocotylus O. tuberculata paralarva...

the mantle cavity. During copulation of some cephalopod species, the hectocotylus transfers the spermatophore from Needham's sac into the mantle cavity...

the male, which is specially adapted for the purpose and known as a hectocotylus, and placed inside the mantle cavity of the female during mating. The...