Preparing Whole Mounts of Hard Parts of Recent Bryozoa

Procedures are given for preserving, storing, cleaning and mounting calcareous Bryozoa on slides. Potassium hypochlorite digestion is preferred to incineration for cleaning because heated specimens eventually deteriorate. White glue is used instead of balsam to fix colonies to slides because balsam...

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Published inChesapeake science Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 62 - 64
Main Authors Banta, William C., Soule, John D., Soule, Dorothy F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Natural Resources Institute of the University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory 01.03.1973
Subjects
Animals
Biological taxonomies
Calcium carbonates
Cleaning
Drying
Glues
Incinerators
Inks
Materials
Short Papers and Notes
Skeleton
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Summary:Procedures are given for preserving, storing, cleaning and mounting calcareous Bryozoa on slides. Potassium hypochlorite digestion is preferred to incineration for cleaning because heated specimens eventually deteriorate. White glue is used instead of balsam to fix colonies to slides because balsam weakens with time. Ink or food coloring applied to dry specimens increases contrast.
ISSN:0009-3262
2168-8060
DOI:10.2307/1350706