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Myxine glutinosa

Chordata › Myxini › Myxiniformes › Myxinidae

26, 14, 25haploid counts

Diploid number in the source: 28, 50, 52

Conflicting counts This record lists more than one count.

The chart below uses the first one, 26. The sources are listed together under Sources.

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Other species in Myxine.

Sources

  1. Nakai, Y., S. Kubota, Y. Goto, T. Ishibashi, W. Davison, and S. Kohno (1995). Chromosome elimination in three Baltic, south Pacific and north-east Pacific hagfish species. Chromosome Research 3: 321-330.
  2. Makino, S. (1951). An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Iowa State College Press, Ames.
  3. Arai, R. (2011). Fish karyotypes: a check list. Springer Science & Business Media.

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

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