Abstract
Skin biopsies of two animals (l♂,l♀) were made available by Dr. C. Gray, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., USA. Karyological data are identical between the 2 specimens except the sex pair. Although the diploid number is the same as that found by Hsu and Arrighi, the present specimens have 2 pairs of acrocentric autosomes (group F) whereas the one reported by Hsu and Arrighi had only one. Either a polymorphism exists in this species, or there are actually more than one species under the same name.
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Hsu, T.C. and Arrighi, F.E.: Karyotypes of 13 carnivores. Mammalian Chromosomes Newsletter No. 21: 155, 1966.
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Hsu, T.C., Benirschke, K. (1968). Felis nigripes (Black-footed cat). In: An Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6424-9_33
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