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Anonymous
It's a pseudo-hermaphrodite. That's just my own term, I don't recall the real one or the proper science spiel explaining it.
It has the proper genitalia for its gender, but at some point during development in the egg, it basically got confused about just what sort of chromosomes it had, and started growing like it was of the opposite sex.
It's most obvious in species that have different appearance between their genders, like that lobster. Happens a lot with bugs too.
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