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John Wullschleger
>Rest assured, your specimens will be perfectly OK as vouchers. Just thaw them
>out in water if they need a bit of rehydration. We routinely fix long-frozen
>specimens intended for permanent museum preservation in formalin (75% ethanol
>would also be satisfactory).
Can anyone tell me whether fish that have been frozen at
> -70 C for up to a year and a half can be transferred to
> alchohol or formalin and used as reference specimens? I am
> concerned that they might be damaged by freezing to the point
> that they are not recognizable or at least not in good
> enough condition to be useful. The species in question is
> northern clingfish (Gobbiesox maeandricus), which is
> typically found on the undersides of ledges in the intertidal
> zone of the Pacific Coast.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John Wullschleger
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H.J. Walker,Jr.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Univ. California, San Diego 0208
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