Hæmoglobin Pattern and Chromosome Number of American, European, and Japanese eels (Anguilla)

Abstract

WHILE I am in substantial agreement with the conclusions of Dr. Sick et al., I feel that there is still an important point to be emphasized. The hæmoglobin tests show a close affinity between the American and European eels as opposed to the Japanese. They are therefore in striking contrast to the biometric criteria hitherto applied by taxonomists of Schmidt's school¹, for these, on the contrary, showed an apparently close relationship between the European and Japanese species as opposed to the American: