Dear Colleagues,
I am preparing to make my morphological detailed aspect of work on freshwater gammarids of Iran but I am not sure which strategy to follow. Should I straightforward go to making slides? (if so which strategy would you suggest?) or making the drawing of the whole specimens? Also for some of the localities though it seems (by molecular and also geographic evidence ) I have new species, unfortunately I do not have males.
I really appreciate your help on the issue.
Best
Hi Ahmad,
for detail drawings you need definitely making slides before. For Gammaridae we use the most useful appendices (antannae, mandible palp, coxal and epimeral plates, gnathopods, pereiopods (often the 7th), urosome, uropods and telson. Sometime of course other aspects could be relevant (e.g. maxillae). In addition a drawing from the habit is also necessary.
Best regards
Michael
I'm actually prepare a key book for amphipods and for the drawings we use a Wacom drawing board. It is very helpful to create digital drawings with acurate lines etc. Of course the preparation of the slides is the step beforehand.
Best regards
Michael
For information about line drawings using drawing board, you can read this: http://senckenberg.uni-frankfurt.de/odes/03-14.pdf
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