[Nhcoll-l] Advice on partial fish voucher options

[Peter A Rauch]

Angela,
How large are the (intact) fish (e.g., how much museum voucher storage will
be needed)?

How well known is/are the taxon/taxa that are to be vouchered (e.g., how
likely is it that some specimens, on which this study' results /
interpretation will rely,  may be dubiously ID'd)?

What is the purpose of depositing (vouchering) these particular specimens
into the collection (e.g., which body parts / tissues will be needed in
order to service that purpose)?

Peter

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 5:32 PM Hornsby, Angela <angela.hornsby at mso.umt.edu>
wrote:

> 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, 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.  Cleaned skeleton?  Fins / scales / opercula 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 archiving tissue, regardless.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Angela Hornsby
>
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