A rare sight to see! Did you know king threadfin begin life as males and change …

A rare sight to see! Did you know king threadfin begin life as males and change sex to become females? ???????? The scientific term for species exhibiting this trait is “protandrous hermaphrodite”. We are sometimes lucky enough to see gonads in the process of transitioning. The pink tissue in the centre of this gonad is the developing female ovary, surrounded by the whiter male testes. The timing of the transition to female varies and can happen by the time they are legal size or when…

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