[Nhcoll-l] Advice on partial fish voucher options

[Hornsby, Angela]

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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Angela Hornsby, Ph.D.
Curator, Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (UMZM)
Office ISB 322
University of Montana
Phone (406) 243-4743

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