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REPORTS of hermaphroditic sea urchins are not common. For Arbacia punctulata six examples are recorded over a period of twenty-five years by Harvey1. Since 1956, one report has been made2.
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Harvey, E. B., The American Arbacia and Other Sea Urchins (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1956).
Zimmerman, A. M., Zimmerman, S. B., and Harvey, E. B., Biol. Bull., 119, 353 (1960).
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FRY, D. Development of Eggs from a Hermaphroditic Sea Urchin. Nature 190, 185 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/190185a0
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