[Nhcoll-l] prepping frozen herps

[Carol Spencer]

We make frozen herps into ethanol specimens all the time. They’re not as
flexible as fresh ones but they still look fine and make good specimens.
Unless you really need them as skeletons, you can prepare them as ethanol
herps.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 9:26 PM Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) <
Tonya.Haff at csiro.au> wrote:

> Hello all,
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> I have read (in John Simmon’s book on herpetological collecting, among
> other places) that frozen snake and lizard specimens do not make suitable
> formalin-preserved specimens, and should be instead skeletonised. We have
> quite a few herp specimens in the freezer that we have been planning on
> prepping as ‘pickles’ (fixed in formalin and then stored in ETOH), but  I
> haven’t started yet because of the concern that it may not be worthwhile. I
> wonder if any of you could weigh in on this and tell me what your
> experiences have been, and whether or not you would bother preserving these
> specimens in spirit, or if we should just prep them as skeletons?
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> Thanks!
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> Tonya
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