[Nhcoll-l] Advice on partial fish voucher options

[Angela Hornsby]

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone has a few minutes to help a mammalogist learn how to
deal with fish!

In short, a grad student here is collecting up to 1500 fish this summer for
a project on environmental toxins.  Because the fish will be pulled apart
to analyze separate tissues and search for parasites, they'll be in poor
condition by the time they're in our (the museum's) hands.

My question is whether there is a preferred partial voucher option for
fish.  Dermestid-cleaned skeletons?  Dried scales?  Fins in EtOH?  Since
vouchering wasn't in the original research plan, we don't have the capacity
to formalin fix the remaining carcasses even if that's the preferred
option.  We'll be ultracold archiving tissue, regardless.

Thanks in advance,

Angela Hornsby

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Angela Hornsby, Ph.D.
Curator, Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (UMZM)
Office ISB 322
University of Montana
Email angela.hornsby at mso.umt.edu
Phone (406) 243-4743
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