Cement glands

Cement glands are small organs found in Acanthocephala that are used to temporarily close the posterior end of the female after copulation.[1]

Diagram of a male P. lauroi showing the anterior and posterior testes, and eight cements glands in a clustered arrangement.

References
  1. Bush, Albert O.; Fernández, Jacqueline C.; Esch, Gerald W.; Seed, J. Richard (2001). Parasitism : the diversity and ecology of animal parasites. Cambridge, UK New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. p. 203. ISBN 0-521-66278-8. OCLC 44131774.



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