MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE SPERMATOZOA OF ECHINOTHURID SEA URCHINS *

The morphology of the spermatozoa of three species of echinothurid sea urchins, Asthenosoma ijimai, Araeosoma owstoni, Hapalosoma gemmiferum, was investigated by means of transmission and scanning electron microscopy. The spermatozoa of these three species of echinothurid sea urchins have similar fine structure, but they differ in several features from the more familiar regular sea urchins.

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