
%0 Journal Article
%A Francis, MP 
%A Pankhurst, NW 
%T Juvenile sex inversion in the New Zealand snapper <I>Chrysophrys auratus</I> (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Sparidae)
%J Marine and Freshwater Research
%D 1988/10/01
%V 39
%N 5
%P 625-631
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9880625
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF9880625 
%X Gonads from snapper of age classes 0+ to 10+ years sampled from the north-east coast of New Zealand were examined histologically for evidence of sex inversion. All 0+ fish were undifferentiated, and all 1 + fish were immature females. 2+ to 4+ fish had gonads that were either ovary, ovo-testis or testis. Older fish were either male or female. Snapper reach sexual maturity at ages of 2-5 years, so the developmental pattern is one of juvenile sex inversion by some of the population, and functional gonochorism. 
