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Tachyglossus aculeatus

Chordata › Mammalia › Monotremata › Tachyglossidae
Listed in the source as Echidna aculeata

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 32haploid counts

Diploid number in the source: 64, 64, 63

Conflicting counts This record lists more than one count.

The chart below uses the first one, 8. The sources are listed together under Sources.

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No relatives with counts in this release.

Sources

  1. Bick, Y.A.E. and W.D. Jackson (1967). DNA content of monotremes. Nature 215: 192-193
  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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