As I was sorting through some pictures the other day, I found a few funny ones of various wet specimens I prepped a long time ago. Although my main interest is osteology, I also keep many specimens in fluid, especially when I have several specimens of the same species to work on.
So here are a few!
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Musky octopus (Eledone moschata)
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Musky octopus (Eledone moschata). Love the Cthulhuesque look of this one.
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Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). I used blue tinted acrylic with this one, which soon after dissolved into the ethanol, turning the liquid blue. So use glass if you're trying something like that.
Monkfish (Lophius piscatorius)
Remora (Echeneidae) sucker. This is actually a modified dorsal fin (Britz & Johnson, 2012)
Stargazer snake eel (Brachysomophis cirrocheilos)
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Apron ray (Discopyge tschudii)
Ref: Britz R, Johnson GD. 2012. Ontogeny and homology of the skeletal elements that form the sucking disc of remoras (Teleostei, Echeneoidei, Echeneidae). Journal of Morphology 273: 1353-1366.
Bonjour Sebastien! I've been trying to get in touch with you but I am not sure if your email has changed. I'm going to be posting about designing science tattoos on my Symbiartic blog on Scientific American, as well as putting an image of the tattoo I designed for you into my portfolio later this week. I wanted to give you a heads up. Feel free to email me at theflyingtrilobite on gmail. Apologies for this off-topic comment. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI quite like that cuttlefish in blue, above.
Hi Glendon,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your message and sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Still have the same email so not sure what the issue is. Will drop you a line later today, if you don't get the email feel free to leave another message here and we'll see what we can do about it :)
Cheers,
Sebastien