Are All Fish Hermaphroditic?
Are All Fish Hermaphroditic? Approximately 99% of all vertebrate species consist of separate-sex individuals (gonochorists), i.e., pure males and pure females. The other 1% of vertebrate species are hermaphroditic, and almost all of them are fishes (Avise 2011; Ashman et al. 2014). What percentage of fish are hermaphrodites? It is estimated that about 2 percent