searching for seminal receptacle in S. officinalis

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Good evening :smile:

I am a bit confused about the seminal receptacles of Sepia officinalis. I read a few papers and I know the s. receptacle is a paired organ in the ventral buccal membrane.
I have had a look at a female specimen (against a male) and observed an U-shaped tissue (upper picture) on the inner surface of the buccal membrane that was not present in the male. But I also found a small opening next to each tentacle on the outer surface of the buccal membrane in the female (lower picture).
Which one is the pore of the seminal receptacle?

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Thanks for your help
TK :cuttle:
 
I've info on this in the office (unfortunately I'm not there right now). Unless someone else posts over the next few days, and if you send a pm reminder (I'm a tad stretched right now; prone to forgetting things), I'll dig it out and post.

There are a number of pdf's that can be downloaded online, google search, keywords 'seminal receptacle Sepia', but you've probably tracked these down already (I just did a quick search).

Real interesting post!!! There was a review of seminal receptacles in cephs a few years ago, possibly in a Smithsonian publication (if memory serves me correctly; however, it could have been a review of these structures in the Enoploteuthidae only).

O
 
It was for the Enoploteuthidae, sorry.

For the record the paper was:
Burgess, L.A. 1998. A survey of seminal recptacles in the Enoploteuthidae. Systematics and biogeography of cephalopods, Volume 1. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: 271-276.

I'll do a wee hunt for the receptacles in Sepia.
 
Good Evening from Germany

Thank you for your effort, Steve...
I found an answer to my question today :biggrin2: S. v. Boletzky suggested that the u-shaped tissue in the upper picture is the epithelia for spermatozoid-storage (seminal receptacle)...

TK :cuttle:
 

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