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Title: Butter Hamlets Spawning. Cayman Islands.
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A pair of butter hamlets (Hypoplectrus unicolor) spawning at dusk. Hamlets are one of the few vertebrate species that are true hermaphrodites, here the fish in the foreground is acting as a male, but this pair spawned again minutes later with the roles reversed. George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
- Alexander Mustard
- butter hamlet: Hypoplectrus unicolor
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Islands
- eggs
- Grand Cayman
- macro
- mating behaviour
- reprodcution
- reproduction
- sex
- tropical
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