Jp. Bogart et al., THE CHROMOSOMES OF THE LIVING COELACANTH AND THEIR REMARKABLE SIMILARITY TO THOSE OF ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT FROGS, The Journal of heredity, 85(4), 1994, pp. 322-325
The karyotype of the coelacanth is reported for the first time. Latime
ria chalumnae has a 48-chromosome karyotype that contains metacentric,
subtelocentric, and telocentric chromosomes as well as microchromosom
es. This karyotype is unlike those found in lungfishes but is very sim
ilar to the 46-chromosome karyotype of one of the ancient frogs, Ascap
hus truei.