List of Pokémon with gender differences
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Some species of Pokémon have differences in appearance due to gender in the Pokémon world, with noticeable differences between the males and females. With the exception of the differences between male and female Nidoran (which are considered distinct species), gender differences were introduced in Generation IV.
These differences are a reference to sexual dimorphism, which is commonly seen in many real lifeforms and may offer some clues to their biology and behavior.
In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, in the gate to Canalave City, Professor Rowan's assistant upgrades the player's Pokédex to be able to display form differences, including gender differences. In subsequent games, they are displayed from the start.
Later generations would introduce far fewer Pokémon with gender differences, but those that were introduced varied much more drastically in appearance. Some Pokémon even have different Abilities, base stats, and/or moves they can learn depending on their gender. However, most Pokémon look identical despite their gender.
List of Pokémon
Generation I
| # | Name | Male | Female | ||
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| 0003 | Venusaur | 
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| Female's flower has a visible gynoecium
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| 0012 | Butterfree | 
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| Female has black (purple in Generation V) spots on her lower wings
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| 0019 | Rattata | 
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| Female has smaller whiskers
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| 0020 | Raticate | 
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| Female has smaller whiskers
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| 0025 | Pikachu | 
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| Female's tail ends in the upper half of a heart
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| 0026 | Raichu | 
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| Female's tail lacks a point and is smaller | |||||
| 0032 0029 |
Nidoran♂ Nidoran♀ |
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Males are purple with more spines and pointed ears, plus a larger horn. Females are light blue with whiskers and squared ears. The two are separate evolutionary lines, but can produce Eggs of one another by breeding. | |||||
| 0041 | Zubat | 
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| Female has smaller fangs
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| 0042 | Golbat | 
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| Female has smaller fangs
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| 0044 | Gloom | 
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| Female has one large spot per petal
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| 0045 | Vileplume | 
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| Female's petals have larger spots
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| 0064 | Kadabra | 
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| Female has a smaller mustache
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| 0065 | Alakazam | 
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| Female has a smaller mustache
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| 0084 | Doduo | 
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| Male has black necks and female has beige necks
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| 0085 | Dodrio | 
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| Male has black necks and female has beige necks
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| 0097 | Hypno | 
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| Female has longer collar fur
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| 0111 | Rhyhorn | 
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| Female's horn is shorter
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| 0112 | Rhydon | 
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| Female's horn is shorter
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| 0118 | Goldeen | 
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| Female's horn is smaller
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| 0119 | Seaking | 
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| Female's horn is smaller
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| 0123 | Scyther | 
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| Female's abdomen is larger
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| 0129 | Magikarp | 
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| Male has yellow whiskers and female has white whiskers
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| 0130 | Gyarados | 
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| Male has blue whiskers and female has white whiskers
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| 0133 | Eevee | 
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| Unlike other Eevee, in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, the partner Eevee has a gender difference. Male partner Eevee look the same as all other Eevee, but female partner Eevee have a flower-shaped tail pattern. Starting in Generation VIII, this gender difference was applied to all Eevee. | |||||
Generation II
| # | Name | Male | Female | ||
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| 0154 | Meganium | 
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| Male has longer antennae
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| 0165 | Ledyba | 
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| Female has smaller antennae
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| 0166 | Ledian | 
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| Female has smaller antennae
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| 0178 | Xatu | 
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| Male has three body stripes
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| 0185 | Sudowoodo | 
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| Female's head "branch" is smaller
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| 0186 | Politoed | 
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| Female has smaller cheeks
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| 0190 | Aipom | 
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| Male has shorter head fur
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| 0194 | Wooper | 
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| Female has one set of gill branches
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| 0195 | Quagsire | 
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| Female has a smaller dorsal ridge
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| 0198 | Murkrow | 
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| Female's hat-like plumage is smaller
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| 0202 | Wobbuffet | 
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| Female's mouth has lipstick-like markings
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| 0203 | Girafarig | 
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| Female's body has a larger yellow section
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| 0207 | Gligar | 
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| Female has a smaller stinger
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| 0208 | Steelix | 
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| Female lacks an outer tooth on each side
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| 0212 | Scizor | 
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| Female's abdomen is larger
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| 0214 | Heracross | 
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| Female's horn is heart-shaped
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| 0215 | Sneasel | 
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| Female's left ear is shorter
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| 0215 | Hisuian Sneasel | 
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| Female's left ear is shorter
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| 0217 | Ursaring | 
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| Female has longer shoulder fur
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| 0221 | Piloswine | 
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| Female has smaller tusks
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| 0224 | Octillery | 
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| Female has smaller suction cups
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| 0229 | Houndoom | 
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| Female has smaller horns
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| 0232 | Donphan | 
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| Female has shorter tusks | |||||
Generation III
| # | Name | Male | Female | ||
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| 0255 | Torchic | 
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| Male has a black speck on his rear
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| 0256 | Combusken | 
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| Female has smaller head feathers
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| 0257 | Blaziken | 
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| Female's head crest is smaller
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| 0267 | Beautifly | 
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| Male has longer red markings on his upper wings
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| 0269 | Dustox | 
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| Female has smaller antennae
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| 0272 | Ludicolo | 
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| Male has thicker stripes
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| 0274 | Nuzleaf | 
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| Female has a smaller leaf
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| 0275 | Shiftry | 
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| Female has smaller leaves
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| 0307 | Meditite | 
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| Male's ears are higher
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| 0308 | Medicham | 
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| Male has a larger bulb on his head
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| 0315 | Roselia | 
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| Female's body leaf is longer
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| 0316 | Gulpin | 
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| Female's feather is shorter
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| 0317 | Swalot | 
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| Female has shorter whiskers
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| 0322 | Numel | 
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| Female has larger hump
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| 0323 | Camerupt | 
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| Female has larger humps
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| 0332 | Cacturne | 
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| Female has a large diamond on her chest where male has two small ones
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| 0350 | Milotic | 
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| Male's hair-like fins are shorter
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| 0369 | Relicanth | 
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| Female has a shorter jaw guard | |||||
Generation IV
| # | Name | Male | Female | ||
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| 0396 | Starly | 
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| Female's forehead marking is smaller
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| 0397 | Staravia | 
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| Female's forehead spot is smaller
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| 0398 | Staraptor | 
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| Female's forehead spot is smaller
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| 0399 | Bidoof | 
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| Male's tail has two additional curls
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| 0400 | Bibarel | 
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| Male's mask has two additional curls
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| 0401 | Kricketot | 
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| Female has a larger collar
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| 0402 | Kricketune | 
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| Female has a smaller mustache
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| 0403 | Shinx | 
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| Female has blue hind feet and a shorter mane
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| 0404 | Luxio | 
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| Female has exposed rear ankles and a shorter mane
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| 0405 | Luxray | 
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| Female's mane is smaller
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| 0407 | Roserade | 
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| Female has longer cape
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| 0415 | Combee | 
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| Male's lower face has no red mark Only Female Combee can evolve into Vespiquen
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| 0417 | Pachirisu | 
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| Female's head stripe is shorter
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| 0418 | Buizel | 
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| Female has one less light-colored spot on her back
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| 0419 | Floatzel | 
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| Female has one less light-colored bump on her back
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| 0424 | Ambipom | 
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| Male has shorter head fur
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| 0443 | Gible | 
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| Male has a notched dorsal fin
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| 0444 | Gabite | 
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| Male has a notched dorsal fin
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| 0445 | Garchomp | 
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| Male has a notched dorsal fin
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| 0449 | Hippopotas | 
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| Female's color pattern is inverted
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| 0450 | Hippowdon | 
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| Male's body is light brown and female's is bluish-gray
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| 0453 | Croagunk | 
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| Female has higher "bandages"
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| 0454 | Toxicroak | 
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| Female's vocal sac is smaller
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| 0456 | Finneon | 
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| Female has larger bottom tail fins
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| 0457 | Lumineon | 
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| Female has longer fins
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| 0459 | Snover | 
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| Female's midsection is white
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| 0460 | Abomasnow | 
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| Female has longer chest fur
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| 0461 | Weavile | 
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| Female's ears are shorter
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| 0464 | Rhyperior | 
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| Female has smaller upper horn
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| 0465 | Tangrowth | 
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| Female's finger markings are longer
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| 0473 | Mamoswine | 
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| Female has smaller tusks | |||||
Generation V
| # | Name | Male | Female | ||
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| 0521 | Unfezant | 
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| Male has a reddish-pink wattle with long extensions while the female has a curved feather on the back of her head. Male has a green underside and female has a brown underside.
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| 0592 | Frillish | 
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| Male is blue, frowns, and has a ruffled collar, smooth, diamond-patterned tentacles, and one upper eyelash per eye. Female is pink, smiles, and has a bulbous collar, frilled tentacles, and one lower eyelash per eye. Males have a star-shaped head pattern and a stiff crown while females have a flower-shaped pattern and a limp crown.
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| 0593 | Jellicent | 
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| Body color, eyes, head pattern, and tentacle differences are much the same as with Frillish, but the female's eyes are now larger and have two eyelashes each. Males have a facial covering resembling a large mustache while females have one resembling a fluffy collar. Female has a heart-shaped mouth and the male's is hidden inside the "mustache." Males have a more overall "kingly" appearance, while females have a more overall "queenly" appearance. | |||||
Generation VI
| # | Name | Male | Female | ||
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| 0668 | Pyroar | 
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| Male has a large mane shaped like the kanji character 大 ō (big or great) or 火 hi (fire), a stockier body, and half-brown front legs. Female has long, flowing hair similar to a ponytail and mostly-brown legs.
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| 0678 | Meowstic | 
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| Males are mostly blue with white highlights, the inverse of females. Male's eyes are green with light blue sclerae, while female's are red and yellow. Unlike most Pokémon, the moves Meowstic can learn vary by gender, with males learning more status moves and females learning more attack moves. Male Meowstic have the Hidden Ability Prankster, while female Meowstic have the Hidden Ability Competitive. | |||||
Generation VIII
| # | Name | Male | Female | ||
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| 0876 | Indeedee | 
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| Males have lowered eyes, a triangular mouth pointing upwards like a frown, and more black on their torso, made to resemble a suit. Females have wider eyes, a triangular mouth pointing downwards like a smile, and more white on their torso, made to resemble an apron.
Male Indeedee have higher Attack, Special Attack, and Speed, while female Indeedee have higher Defense, Special Defense, and HP. The two genders also have different moves and Abilities. | |||||
| 0902 | Basculegion | 
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| Males have red accents, fierce-looking eyes, longer barbels, and two additional growths on their chin resembling a stubble. Females have pale-blue accents, sad-looking eyes, shorter barbels, and additional accents around their lips and eyes.
Male Basculegion have higher Attack, while female Basculegion have higher Special Attack. | |||||
Generation IX
| # | Name | Male | Female | ||
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| 0916 | Oinkologne | 
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| Females have more brown bodies while males have a darker gray complexion. Male Oinkologne have a larger left ear which often covers their left eye, and have a more magenta shade of pink for their hooves and snout. Male Oinkologne are also slightly plumper than the females, and have a differently shaped tail bobble.
Male Oinkologne may have the Ability Lingering Aroma, while female Oinkologne may have the Ability Aroma Veil. They also have slightly different stats and level-up learnsets. | |||||
Trivia
- Nidoran is the only Pokémon introduced with gender differences before the introduction of gender as a mechanic in Generation II. This makes Nidoran unique in several ways:
- It is listed as two separate species in the Pokédex, one for each gender.
- The two species share identical names besides non-alphanumeric characters, being the only two species with this distinction.
- Prior to Generation VIII, it was the only Pokémon with unique Pokédex entries for each gender.
- Prior to Generation IV, it was the only Pokémon that could produce an egg outside its own evolutionary line when bred as the female/alongside Ditto, as Nidoran♀ can produce Nidoran♂ eggs and vice-versa. As of Generation IX, Manaphy, as well as Regional forms in certain conditions, now share this distinction.
- It has its gender listed as part of its species name.
- Because of this, it is the only gender-known Pokémon that does not have its gender listed in the usual place during battle, unless nicknamed.
- In games without a gender mechanic such as the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, it often remains as the only Pokémon with gender differences.
- It is listed as two separate species in the Pokédex, one for each gender.
- Some Pokémon with gender differences have unique distinctions:
- Garchomp is the only pseudo-legendary Pokémon to have gender differences.
- Sneasel is the only Pokémon to have a gender difference in both its standard form and regional form.
- The Torchic evolutionary line is the only starter Pokémon to have all of its members have gender differences.
- Politoed is the only Pokémon with gender differences from a branched evolution line that evolves from a Pokémon without gender differences.
- Fairy is the only type that lacks a Pokémon with gender differences.
- Generation IV introduced the most Pokémon with gender differences, with a total of 31.
- It was also the first generation to introduce gender-based evolution, and the first to introduce new gender differences to Pokémon established in previous generations.
- Conversely, Generation IX introduced the fewest Pokémon with gender differences of generations that introduce Pokémon with gender differences, introducing only one.
- Generation VII is the only generation that did not introduce any Pokémon that have gender differences. However, it did introduce a Pokémon that can only evolve if it is a specific gender (only female Salandit can evolve into Salazzle) and a new gender difference for Eevee that was exclusive to the player's partner Eevee.
- No Mega Evolutions or Gigantamax forms have gender differences, even if other forms of the same species do.
- Despite having very prominent gender differences, Hippopotas and Hippowdon only have artwork and a menu sprite for the male of the species.
- Despite Spinda not having any gender differences, the Rotom Pokédex displays separate models for male and female Spinda, using whichever spot pattern the player caught first for each gender.
- Some Pokémon with gender differences evolve into Pokémon that don't have gender differences. Examples include Gloom evolving into Bellossom, Gligar evolving into Gliscor, Murkrow evolving into Honchkrow, and Girafarig evolving into Farigiraf.
- In HZ037, a litter of Sandile and Krokorok was shown, in the middle of the group there was a Krookodile who played the role of "mother" in the group. Unlike others of its species, this Krookodile had pink eyelashes, possibly indicating that it was a female.
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