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A spermatophore is a capsule or mass created by males of various animal
Animal

Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the Kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life....
 species, containing spermatozoa and transferred in entirety to the female's ovipore
Ovipore

An ovipore is a pore-like sexual organ of a female insect that gets insemination by the spermatophores ejected by the aedeagus of a male insect during copulation....
  during copulation. It may contain nourishment for the female, in which case it is called a nuptial gift, though recent research has indicated that this "gift" provides little nutrient value (for an exception, see Mormon cricket
Mormon cricket

The so-called Mormon cricket is actually a shieldbacked katydid, and not a cricket at all. Mormon crickets are large insects that can grow to almost three inches in length....
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matophores is the norm in arachnid
Arachnid

Arachnids are a class of Arthropod invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. All arachnids have eight legs, but some exceptions are of some species having the first pair legs convert to sensory function and harvest mite larvae have only 3 pairs of legs....
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A spermatophore is a capsule or mass created by males of various animal
Animal

Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the Kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life....
 species, containing spermatozoa and transferred in entirety to the female's ovipore
Ovipore

An ovipore is a pore-like sexual organ of a female insect that gets insemination by the spermatophores ejected by the aedeagus of a male insect during copulation....
  during copulation. It may contain nourishment for the female, in which case it is called a nuptial gift, though recent research has indicated that this "gift" provides little nutrient value (for an exception, see Mormon cricket
Mormon cricket

The so-called Mormon cricket is actually a shieldbacked katydid, and not a cricket at all. Mormon crickets are large insects that can grow to almost three inches in length....
).

Invertebrates

Spermatophores is the norm in arachnid
Arachnid

Arachnids are a class of Arthropod invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. All arachnids have eight legs, but some exceptions are of some species having the first pair legs convert to sensory function and harvest mite larvae have only 3 pairs of legs....
s. In various insects, such as Bush Crickets, the spermatophore is often surrounded by a proteonaceous spermatophylax
Spermatophylax

A spermatophylax is a gelatine bolus which some male insects eject during copulation with females through their aedeagus together with spermatophores, and which functions as a nutrition addition for the female....
.The function of the spermatophylax is to cause the female to relinquish some of her control over the insemination process allowing full sperm transfer from the spermatophore.

Vertebrates

Some vertebrates also reproduce via spermatophores. Males of many salamander
Salamander

Salamander is a common name of approximately 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterized by slender bodies, short noses, and long tails....
 and newt
Newt

A newt is a salamander that lives in the water as an adult. Newts occur in the Pleurodelinae subfamily , found in North America, Europe and Asia....
 species create spermatophores, which the females may choose to take up or not, depending on the success of the male's mating display.