copulatrix

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The spermatheca (also called the bursa copulatrix) is an organ that can't be exchanged, while a spermatophore is a packet of sperm that is given to a slug's (or a snail's) partner during mating and may or may not be stored in the spermatheca.

How a glaring error of mine was corrected a year later AYDIN 2008
I even had an extra muscle, presumably a retractor no, it is not the vas deferens, attached to the bursa copulatrix that Germain didn't illustrate.

Another successful dissection AYDIN 2007
I even had an extra muscle, presumably a retractor no, it is not the vas deferens, attached to the bursa copulatrix that Germain didn't illustrate.

Archive 2007-10-01 AYDIN 2007
During mating of hermaphrodite land snails, each partner places a spermatophore, a bag of spermatozoa (sperm cells), in their partner's bursa copulatrix (BC).

Love darts for you my love AYDIN 2007
During mating of hermaphrodite land snails, each partner places a spermatophore, a bag of spermatozoa (sperm cells), in their partner's bursa copulatrix (BC).

Archive 2007-02-01 AYDIN 2007
Bursa copulatrix: the copulatory pouch of the female in some orders;

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith