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Menidia menidia

Chordata › Actinopterygii › Atheriniformes › Atherinopsidae
Listed in the source as Menidia notata

18, 24haploid counts

Diploid number in the source: 36, 48

Conflicting counts This record lists more than one count.

The chart below uses the first one, 18. The sources are listed together under Sources.

Closest relatives

No other species in Menidia. Species in the same family, Atherinopsidae:

Sources

  1. Arai, R. (2011). Fish karyotypes: a check list. Springer Science & Business Media.
  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.

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

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