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What type of fish can change their gender from male to female2007-11-24 23:42:35

How might this ability aid the fish?

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The only fish in the aquarium world known to have been able to change its sex are the Sword Tails (live bearers), but only the females are known to change their sex from female to male. There is no recorded incidence of male Sword Tails converting to females.

This is probably the natures way to ensure that the species survive.

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What type of person really cares?!

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Swordtails do but there is some skepticism as to whether or not they can breed afterwards.

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uhh i think the weirder ones do that.. you know things like sea cucumbers and stuff.. anyway this could help if there's only females where it lives then *poof* it changes into a male so they can reproduce

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Josh Fish.dunno why

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They wouldn't be changing their gender -- they'd be changing their sex.

Sex is biological, gender is socially constructed -- the female "gender" is all the things we associate with being female, like skirts and being maternal, and doing the housework. The female "sex" is our organs -- the ovaries, uterus, vagina, etc. The words aren't interchangable.

Fish don't have a gender -- just a sex.

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The saltwater false percula (clownfish) can change gender. The bigger of the two becoming the female. Aiding in the survival of their species.

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the term is heteromorphism.