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Scuba diving Pemba Islands... Talk about TIME&PLACE. I was shooting a nudi, when the boat crew ahead of me pointed to a spot, I nodded and worked my way there. I found 2 flatworms, later id'd as Pseudocercos Lindae Flatworms. I said, let me stay and see what happens,and a minute later, they were wrestling, and a minute later, I saw a penis and mating and a minute later, I saw both having penis', I thought I was narc'd:) who is who, who is the male, what I have learned since I came home, and the major help of Leslie Harris, and as she says, """Wow, that's a really amazing series! There's so much information in them! You can see the white spots of injected sperm on both the undersides & topsides, some pictures really show the ruffled pharynx, the tip of the penis with one pore, & I really like those where one animal seems to be hitting itself! Pseudobiceros & Pseudoceros are both valid genera. The names refer to the number of pores on the penis - Pseudobiceros has two.""""" Leslie Harris/ Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. what I learned,(How jealous am I:)) HERMAPHRODITE: animal having male and female characters. It is called simultaneous h. if it can act as male and female simultaneously. More often we have sequential hermaphrodites, in which male and female sex organs mature in different times. An animal acting as a male first and then female is called protoandrous hermaphrodite, if the female phases cames first we will call it protogynous hermaphrodite ***you can view this when you enter the gallery one at a time or in the upper right,there is a 'slideshow' option and you can set the seconds to see the show as it was happening. You can also notice exactly when my strobe went dead:)