OSMOTIC FRAGILITY OF SOME FISH ERYTHROCYTES IN HYPTOTONIC SALINE

1. 1. Osmotic fragility curves of erythrocytes from eleven species of marine teleosts from the Gulf of Mexico are of the normal sigmoid type. 2. 2. The mean corpuscular fragility value is generally consistent within a species but varies widely among the different species. 3. 3. Two species of gars, Lepidosteus osseus and L. productus, have erythrocytes which are resistant to hemolysis in hypotonic sodium chloride solutions. © 1969.