The influence of preservation on fish morphology in museum collections based on two species of the genus Lepomis (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Centrarchidae)

Background. The wide availability of specimen-based museum collections allows scientists to address a variety of ecological and systematic hypotheses from a broad timeframe and extensive spatial scale. However, techniques employed to preserve and maintain these collections affect morphology, potenti...

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Main Authors: K.A. Gaston, S.J. Jacquemin, T.E. Lauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2013-09-01
Series:Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
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Online Access:https://aiep.pensoft.net/article/26393/download/pdf/