Oligochaeta

Reproduction and Development

Oligochaeta - Reproduction and Development

- Oligochaeta = monoecious
- Have both male and female reproductive system

- On the anterior septum of certain anterior segment :

- 1 or 2 pair of testes
- 1 pair of ovaries

- Sperm ducts + Oviducts

- have viliated funnels

Reproductive Organs
- Testes are associated with 3 pairs
of seminal vesicles
- Seminal vesicles = for maturation +
sperm storage

- Seminal Receptacles = recieve

sperm

- Ovisac associated with oviducts

- Ovisac = stored egg

Copulation
1.Two worms facing opposite directions.
2.Ventral surfaces + anterior ends are in contact.
a. Cause one worms clitellun to lines up with the genital segment of the
other worm.

Copulation

3. Clitellum secretes mucous

heath.
- Covers the anterior
halves of both worm
- Hold them in place
- Some species also have :
- Penile tructuresMaintain contact
- Genital setae

Copulation
4. In Lumbricus : Sperm duct releases
sperm
5. Sperm move through grooce in the
external ventral body wall
-

Groove = formed by contraction of special

muscle

6. Sperm move toward the opening

of the seminal receptacles
-

by muscle contraction of the groove

Copulation
- In other oligochaetes :
Sperm transfer is direct
- because alignment of sperm
duct and seminal receptacle
openings

- Lasts 2-3 hours

Oligochaeta - Reproduction and Development

-The clitellum will be form a cocoon to
deposition of eggs and sperm

-The cocoon consists of mucoid and

chitinous materials that encircle the
clitellum.

-Mucous glands to produce mucus

covered cocoon area.

Oligochaeta - Reproduction and Development

-Cocoon secreting gland build the shell of

the cocoon with a substance similar the
chitin.

-When this substance hardens became

sticky pad.

Then..
-Albumin secreting gland will come out of albumin
in the shell of Cocoon Pheretima which has female
reproductive glands in which the client Tellus. Will
release an egg into a cocoon.

-After that cocoon will break away from the wall of

the earthworm and resembles a loose sheath.

- When earthworms shrink and move backward.

- Cocoon is moving forward.

-When cocoon moving through the

openings of the bag sperm.The sperm will
get into the cocoon and have internal
fertilization cocoon.
-When Cocoon fall from the earthworm.
Cocoon, it will shrink sealed. The eggshaped bag with a yellow tint.

Asexual reproduction
- Some earthworm species are able to
reproduce without the mixture of egg
and sperm
-

call "Parthenogenetically"
-

find in earthworms
"Dendrobaena family

- often found breeding in asexual

reproduction, such a process is
divided into small pieces.
(Fragmentation) and regeneration
process. (Regeneration)

Thank you

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Common Earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris). (n.d.). Retrieved May
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http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/science/zoology/annelids/earthwor
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