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Give the location of clitellum and spermathecal openings in Lampito mauritii.

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In mature Earthworms, segments 14 to 17 may be found swollen with a glandular thickening of the skin called the clitellum.Spermathecal openings are three pairs of small ventrolateral apertures lying intersegmentally between the grooves of the segments 6/7, 7/8 and 8/9.
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