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There are a great many animals, from jelly-fishes to fishes and frogs, in which fertilisation is external, and there are no intromittent organs at all.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

All other differences, therefore, including genital ducts and copulatory or intromittent organs, are somatic.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

From the caecum the large intestine passes in a ventro-caudal direction, with gradually decreasing caliber, to the cloaca, from whose anterior wall the intromittent organ, io, projects.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

The terminal part of the male ducts may be protrusible and act as an intromittent organ, or this function may be discharged by some of the appendages, as, for instance, in the Brachyura.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various