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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:
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TUCKER, D. Hæmoglobin Pattern and Chromosome Number of American, European, and Japanese eels (Anguilla). Nature 193, 1002 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931002a0
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