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4-8 In animals, ‘hermaphrodites’ are common in the ocean. Most of the marine invertebrates are ‘hermaphrodites’ and this includes: snails, starfish, barnacles, sea anemones, and fan worms. This also includes quarter of the fish in the pacific, Australia, the Caribbean, and the Red Sea which are also ‘hermaphrodites’. Also most species of soapfishes, dottybacks, emperors, moray eels, porgies, gobies, damselfish, angelfish, wrasses and parrotfish are ‘hermaphrodites’. (F) Females changing to males: this is very common in the coral reef fish society, e.g the bulehead wrasse, and cichlids (see also, Berkowitz 2022). (G) Males changing to females: this occur in a group of damselfish called ‘clown fish’. They do this once they have grown large enough to make many eggs. (H) Males and females simultaneously: this occur in small coral reef basses - the hamlets. They are both ‘sexes’ at the same time.