#pseudobiceros

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This one’s for all the flatworms of the genus Pseudobiceros who got saddled with motherhood due to their inferior penis fencing skills

Some delightful reading for the uninitiated

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Photo by Yury Ivanov | Info | Info

An image of Pseudobiceros fulgor taken in Bali, Indonesia. Pseudobiceros is a genus of flatworms. Like all flatworms, Pseudobiceros are hermaphrodites. This particular genus engages in penis fencing. When the "winner" touches its penis to the "skin" of the other, insemination occurs, and the "loser" has to bear the burden of motherhood.

Flatworms (Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths) are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates. Unlike other bilaterians, they are acoelomates (having no body cavity), and have no specialized circulatory and respiratory organs, which restricts them to having flattened shapes that allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through their bodies by diffusion.

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pseudobiceros

a flatworm and so to speak a hermaphrodite

found in tropical indo pacific

up to 3 inches

^°eats their prey whole by engulfing°^

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Like all flatworms, Pseudobiceros are hermaphrodites. This particular genus engages in penis fencing. When the "winner" touches its penis to the 'skin' of the other, insemination occurs, and the "loser" has to bear the burden of motherhood.

Wikipedia on Pseudobiceros

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Pseudobiceros is a genus of flatworms. Like all flatworms, Pseudobiceros are hermaphrodites. This particular species engages in penis fencing. When the "winner" touches its penis to the 'skin' of the other, insemination occurs, and the "loser" has to bear the burden of motherhood.  ー Wiki: Pseudobiceros

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