Can Angler Fish Change Sexes in the USA

After fusing, “the male becomes permanently dependent on the female for blood-transported nutrients, while the host female becomes a kind of self-fertilizing hermaphrodite,” Pietsch wrote in his review of ceratioid anglerfish, published in 2005 in the journal Ichthyological Research. What happens when male and female angler fish mate? Once the male finds a suitable mate,…