[Nhcoll-l] Suggestions for how to store dried ichthyology specimens

[Elizabeth Wommack]

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for suggestions on how to house dried ichthyology specimens for long term storage.

We have a researcher who picked up some dried fish in Africa. The fish were dried in the sun and then brought back as is for research (so no ETOH or other chemicals). They have been sampled for DNA and some basic morphological measurements were taken. There are no future plans to sample the specimens further or rehydrate them by the current lab, so they are ready to donate them to the collection.

I was thinking that we could store the specimens in our dry collection with the skeletal material, perhaps in small jars. Does anyone have any experience housing full dried fish in their collections?

Any recommendations would be very much appreciated.

Thank you,
Beth Wommack

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Elizabeth Wommack, PhD
Curator and Collections Manager of Vertebrates
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center
University of Wyoming,
Laramie, WY 82071
ewommack@<mailto:ewommack at berkeley.edu>uwyo.edu<http://uwyo.edu/>
www.uwymv.<http://www.uwymv.edu/>org
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