Finitely presented groups which are neither Hopfian nor cohopfian

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Are there any examples of (preferably countable) finitely presented groups which are neither hopfian nor cohopfian? If so, is there a classification of such groups?

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Baumslag-Solitar groups, such as $G={\rm BS}(2,3) = \langle x,y \mid y^{-1}x^2y=x^3 \rangle$ are well-known examples of nonHopfian groups, and they are also not coHopfian, because they have isomorphic proper subgroups $H=\langle x^k,y \rangle$ for some $k>1$.

For example, when $k=5$, $|G:H| = 5$ and $H \cong G$.