Ceratogyrus marshalli
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Ceratogyrus marshalli

The spider is around 1 inch (body length), is it possible to determine if it is male or female? In my opinion it's male, but I'm not that experienced.
I find African T's somewhat unreliable at smaller sizes,especially Ceratogyrus which shows very little hints ventrally.
Though im just slightly going to lean female because i don't see anything that screams male just yet
 
ventral sexing is guesswork, some guesses are better than others, but I have seen tons of 'experts' be wrong on more than 1 occasion
 
I thought that they are part from the male reproductive system...my bad. Thank you!
I just read that you wrote 1 inch BODY LENGHT, not legspan. So i got a wrong idea of size, thinking the gonopores won't be that big at 1 inch legspan.
Can you move those at all or are they stuck to the surface?
 
I tried to take picture with more depth in it, but not sure if it shows something different. Anyway, yes, they are sticking like ears and movable.
https://flic.kr/p/2mNwxHc
That does look like a spermatheca (as i think this is too large to be a gonopore), though i dont have the experience with C.marshalli, only darlingi.
Post these two images in the spermatheca sexing gallery, so hopefully somebody with C.marshalli experience can have a say, but i suppose it's a female.
Another way you can sex your C.marshalli is by horn, since theyre sexually dymorphic (Females have a prominent horn while males develop only a button for a horn)
 

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