Bothrops moojeni Hoge Moojen’s fer de lance, caicaca
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Abstract
The karyotypes shown here were obtained from short term cultures of blood. The female is the heterogametic sex, the 4th pair of macrochromosomes correspond to the sex chromosomes ZW. Both specimens were captured in São Paulo, Brazil, and are preserved in the Collection of the Instituto Butantan.
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