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Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington—Nos. 68, 69 and 70

Male duct

Male duct.

The walls of the male duct as it emerges from the fertilisation pocket are composed of ciliated low simple columnar epithelium, supported by a thick outer layer of connective tissue. As the male duct passes anteriorly over the folds of the prostate gland, receiving ciliated ductules from the prostate gland at several points (Fig. 12), the epithelium of the wall gradually changes to simple ciliated cuboidal epithelium. Subepithelial mucus-secreting cells are present in the wall. The duct varies in section from a deep cleft to a round tube, and in the anterior section it is in open communication with the lumen of the oviducal gland to form a spermoviduct (see Fig. 11).