A Flame Chub Sketch (I Had To Share It)
My wife Ruth was hanging out in my office yesterday while I was talking to a student. She sat down next to several jars of recently preserved fish I've collected this spring, and by chance did a quick sketch in her journal of the most recent flame chub I found. This flame chub came from the uppermost reaches of Little Piney Creek in Thach, Limestone county, AL.I like this sketch because it's an accurate, if loose, view of this fish in a jar with my pencilled label inside the jar with the binomial and location information visible. Any flame chubs I find and keep as vouchers I put in ethanol so that DNA could be easily extracted from them if someone is up for such a study; anyone?

1 Comments:
Bruce:
You store your specimens nose down!?!
I thought the first rule of storage was "tail down", so no key taxonomic characters are placed at risk of damage.
Steve Haslouer, Topeka
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