The reproductive system of gastropods varies greatly from one group to another within this very large and diverse taxonomic class of animals. Their reproductive strategies also vary greatly.
Entwined everted penises of a pair of mating hermaphrodite slugs in the species Limax maximus.
Marine gastropods mating.
A stack of the protandrous species Crepidula fornicata: the small individual at the extreme lower left is currently a male, the other individuals are large enough to have become female
Two hermaphrodite opisthobranchs mating, the nudibranch species Nembrotha rutilans
Mating of gastropods
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The mating of gastropods is a vast and varied topic, because the taxonomic class Gastropoda is very large and diverse, a group comprising sea snails and sea slugs, freshwater snails and land snails an
Reproductive system of gastropods
…gastropods, there are separate sexes (male and female); most terrestrial gastropods however are hermaphrodites. Courtship is a part of the behaviour of mating gastropods. In some families of pulmonate land snails, one unusual feature of the reproductive system and reproductive behavior is the creation and utilization…
Mating Cornu aspersum garden snails
A mating pair of Arion vulgaris; each partner has everted a part of the oviduct, whilst spermatophores are being exchanged internally
Deroceras panormitanum leaving behind a mucus trail.