Hæmoglobin pattern and chromosome number of American, European, and Japanese eels (Anguilla)

Abstract

ACCORDING to Schmidt1 the Atlantic representatives of the genus Anguilla constitute two separate species, namely, the American eel, A. rostrata (Le Sueur), and the European eel, A. anguilla (Linnaeus), both of which migrate to a spawning area in the Sargasso Sea. © 1962 Nature Publishing Group.