Claim: Boops boops, commercially fished, with 37,830 tonnes taken in 2008, has variously been described as a rudimentary intersex organism.
Evidence: The species is commercially fished, with 37,830 tonnes taken in 2008. It has variously been described as a rudimentary intersex organism, with a few intersex individuals, or a protogynous intersex, with individuals starting out life as females, and some becoming male later on.