HERMAPHRODITE

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) An organized body, in which there is either a real or apparent combination of the characteristics of the two sexes. The first is the " true," the second the "spurious" hermaphrodite. Hermaphrodites are also "natural" or "preternatural." The animals in which the organs of the two sexes are naturally combined in the same individual are confined to the invertebrate division, and are most common in the Molluscous and Radiate cla es. If the term hermaphrodite may be applied to those species which propagate without the concourse of the sexes, but in which no male organ can be detected, as well as to those in which both male and female organs are present in the same body, then there may be distinguished three kinds of hermaphroditism. First, The Crypt andro us, or in which the female or productive organs are alone developed. Ex.: The cystic Entozoa, the hydrostatic Acalephes, some Polypes, and Sponges. Second, The Heautanarous, or in which the male organs arc developed, but so disposed as to fecundate the ova of the same individual. Ex.; The Cirripeds, the Rotifers, the tremntode and cestoid Entozoa, and some Acephala, as the Cyclns. "Third, The Motriandrovs, or in which the male organs are so disposed as not to fecundate the ova of tie same body, hut where the concourse of two individuals is required, notwithstanding the co-existence in each of the organs of the two sexes. Ex.! The gastropodous Mollusks, with the exception of the Pectin i branchiate order, and cla .Inntl/ida. All the other invertebrates, as the Cephalopods and pec [s. 570]