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CHROMATOGRAPHIC methods have not been used widely in the taxonomic study of fishes. Buzzati-Traverso and Rechnitzer1 claimed to have shown that geographical races of marine fishes could be separated by using paper chromatography to analyse muscle-squashes with ninhydrin and fluorescent methods. Later Dannevig2, using ninhydrin-stained chromatograms of fresh muscle squashes, found specific differences between various species of Gadidæ, Clupeidæ and Pleuronectidæ. Deep water and inshore forms of Gadus morrhuae were found to be separable.
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BARRY, J., O'ROURKE, F. Species Specificity of Fish Mucus. Nature 184, 2039 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1842039a0
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