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Lepisma saccharina

Arthropoda › Insecta › Zygentoma › Lepismatidae
Listed in the source as Lepisma saccharina 2

29, 17, 30haploid counts

Diploid number in the source: 60, 58, 34

Conflicting counts This record lists more than one count.

The chart below uses the first one, 29. The sources are listed together under Sources.

Closest relatives

No other species in Lepisma. Species in the same family, Lepismatidae:

Sources

  1. 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.
  2. Makino, S. (1951). An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Iowa State College Press, Ames.

The sources are listed together. The data does not say which source reports which count.

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