Translations:Codex: Toves/19/en

1. Females open 50-200 gonopores lining their tails, releasing spores into the water.
2. Males open their gonopores and extend out 20-100 hair-like stamens from their tails, each a filament topped with an adhesive cluster of the male’s genetic material.
3. Male stamens sweep through the water, attempting to catch female spores.
4. Cell division begins immediately on contact between female spores and male stamens, forming gametes.
5. The male brings his tail into contact with the female’s, as each gamete-topped stamen gravitates towards a female’s gonopore and lodges in there, breaking free of the male’s body.
6. Tail-to-tail contact is repeated for maximum implantation of gametes into the female tail.
7. Each gonopore that received a gamete immediately seals itself, and begins to develop a jelly-like sack around the gamete as it develops into an embryo.