[Nhcoll-l] Advice on partial fish voucher options

[Gregory Schneider]

It would be good to have images of the live fish as well and another set of
images of the preserved specimens as well as frozen tissue samples for DNA.
Greg Schneider
Division of Reptiles and Amphibians
Museum of Zoology
Research Museums Center
3600 Varsity Drive
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108

734 647 1927

ges at umich.edu



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On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 12:44 PM Angela Hornsby <adhornsby at gmail.com> 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 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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