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Betta splendens

Chordata › Actinopterygii › Perciformes › Osphronemidae

21haploid

Diploid number in the source: 42

Closest relatives

No other species in Betta. Species in the same family, Osphronemidae:

Sources

  1. Hinegardner, R. (1968). Evolution of cellular DNA content in teleost fishes. American Naturalist 102: 517-523.
  2. Makino, S. (1951). An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Iowa State College Press, Ames.
  3. Ashman, T. L., Bachtrog, D., Blackmon, H., Goldberg, E. E., Hahn, M. W., Kirkpatrick, M., et al. (2014). Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems. Scientific Data, 1, 140015.
  4. Arai, R. (2011). Fish karyotypes: a check list. Springer Science & Business Media.
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