Anu Radhakrishnan

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How to effectively preserve Buffered (Sörensen's Buffer)10% formalin fixed inland fish specimens in Isopropyl Alcohol?

We have a collection of around 70 species specimens from 20 families; all from Vembanad Lake, Kerala, India. We would like to know what all are the effective long term preservation techniques,...

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If a holotype of a species is lost and a holotype of its synonym is available what would be the next main reference called?

Eg: Holotype of Xenocatantops humilis (Serville, 1838) is of lost status. Whereas, Caloptenus strictus (Walker, 1870) a synonym species of the above mentioned still has its holotype in BMNH. So...

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