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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