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Title: Spawning Hamlets. Cayman Islands
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A pair of yellowbelly hamlets (Hypoplectrus aberrans) spawning at dusk. Hamlets are one of the few vertebrate species that are true hermaphrodites, here the fish in the front is acting as a female, but this pair spawned again minutes later with the roles reversed. George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- British West Indies
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Islands
- coral reef
- dusk
- Fishes
- George Town
- Grand Cayman
- Hamlets: Serranids: Serranidae
- Marine Life
- mating
- reproduction
- spawning
- tropical
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- yellowbelly hamlet: Hypoplectrus aberrans
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