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| | Pharyngula: Tentacle Sex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Males produce elaborate spermatophores, illustrated to the left, which are complex packages of sperm. |
 | | Squid sex is a process of passing one of these clever novelty items to a female, where it will then go sproing when she lays some eggs. |
 | | Instead, they have a pouch that opens into the mantle cavity, called Needham's sac, where spermatophores are stored, and they have a specially modified tentacle, the hectocotylus, which is used to reach into the sac, scoop out a spermatophore, and and place it inside the buccal or mantle cavity of the female. |
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