ABSTRACT
The anatomy of male reproductive system in Gymnophiona has been described in the following species: Typhlonectes compressicauda (Exbrayat and Sentis, 1982; Exbrayat and Delsol, 1985; Exbrayat, 1985,1986a,b, 1993, 2000; Exbrayat et ah, 1986; Exbrayat and Dansard, 1992, 1994; Anjubault and Exbrayat, 1998; Pujol and Exbrayat, 2000); Uraeotyphlus menoni (Chatterjee, 1936); Ichthyophis glutinosus (Spengel, 1876; Sarasin and Sarasin, 1887-1890; Semon, 1892; Seshachar, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1942a,b,c, 1943, 1945); Hypogeophis rostratus (Tonutti, 1931); Ichthyophis beddomei (Bhatta, 1987). The following species were studied more recently by Wake (1968a,b, 1970a,b, 1972, 1981, 1995): Schistometopum gregorii, Herpele squalostoma, Boulengerula boulengeri, Uraeotyphlus oxyurus, Geotrypetes seraphinii, Siphonops brasiliensis, Chthonerpeton viviparum, Scolecomorphus kirkii, Scolecomorphus uluguruensis, Scolecomorphus vittatus, Caecilia (Oscaecilia) ochrocephala, ldiocranium russeli, Dermophis mexicanus. In very recent works, Smita et al. (2003, 2004a,b, 2006) using light and electron microscopy, give a deep study of Sertoli and germ cells in two asiatic species, Ichthyophis tricolor and Uraeotyphlus narayani. George et al. (2004), Akbarsha et al. (2006) give the histological and ultrastructural study of Mullerian ducts in Uraeotyphlus narayani. In a recent paper Measey et al. (2008) described a structure of testes and spermatogenic activity in Boulengerula taitanus.
