Cytotaxonomic diagnosis of Trichomycterus diabolus (Teleostei: Trichomycteridae) with comments about its evolutionary relationships with co-generic species

The karyotype and the Ag-NOR location of a sample of Trichomycterus diabolus collected in the córrego Hortelã (Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil) are described. The species exhibited 2n=56 chromosomes (42 metacentrics, 12 submetacentrics and 2 subtelocentrics) and the nucleolus organizing region located n...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo A. Torres, Claudio Oliveira, Fausto Foresti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Series:Neotropical Ichthyology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252004000300003&lng=en&tlng=en