Preliminary karyotypic data on the Nile pufferfish Tetraodon lineatus (Tetraodontidae).
- 1Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia https://ror.org/0577sef82.
- 2National Fishery and Aquatic Life Research Center, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Sebeta, P.O. Box 64, Ethiopia National Fishery and Aquatic Life Research Center, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research Sebeta Ethiopia.
Abstract
The family Tetraodontidae comprises 193 valid species of teleost fish distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Available cytogenetic information for 31 species indicates extensive variability in diploid chromosome number (2n) ranging from 28 to 46. Here, we present the preliminary cytogenetic characteristics of Tetraodon lineatus Linnaeus, 1758, the type species of Tetraodon Linnaeus, 1758, which is the type genus of the family. The karyotype of a single male of T. lineatus from the White Nile Basin in Ethiopia comprised 12 metacentric/submetacentric and 28 subtelocentric/acrocentric chromosomes (2n = 40, FN = 52). These data are briefly compared with the available cytogenetic information on other tetraodontid genera, summarized according to the current taxonomic classification.
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BibTeX
@article{skuratovskaya2026preliminary,
title = {{Preliminary karyotypic data on the Nile pufferfish Tetraodon lineatus (Tetraodontidae).}},
author = {Alexandra Yu Skuratovskaya and Julia S Jukova and Fekadu Tefera and Sergey A Simanovsky and Alexander S Golubtsov},
journal = {Comparative cytogenetics},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.3897/compcytogen.20.212458},
url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42959471},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Preliminary karyotypic data on the Nile pufferfish Tetraodon lineatus (Tetraodontidae).
AU - Alexandra Yu Skuratovskaya
AU - Julia S Jukova
AU - Fekadu Tefera
AU - Sergey A Simanovsky
AU - Alexander S Golubtsov
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/19
JO - Comparative cytogenetics
DO - 10.3897/compcytogen.20.212458
UR - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42959471
AB - The family Tetraodontidae comprises 193 valid species of teleost fish distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Available cytogenetic information for 31 species indicates extensive variability in diploid chromosome number (2n) ranging from 28 to 46. Here, we present the preliminary cytogenetic characteristics of Tetraodon lineatus Linnaeus, 1758, the type species of Tetraodon Linnaeus, 1758, which is the type genus of the family. The karyotype of a single male of T. lineatus from the White Nile Basin in Ethiopia comprised 12 metacentric/submetacentric and 28 subtelocentric/acrocentric chromosomes (2n = 40, FN = 52). These data are briefly compared with the available cytogenetic information on other tetraodontid genera, summarized according to the current taxonomic classification.
SN - 1993-0771
SN - 1993-078X
ER -