Dear Matthew,
Many years ago I did a quantitative study of cryptofauna inhabiting
intertidal vermetid reefs. I collected the reef material with a hammer
and chisel and broke up the fixed (in formalin) reef material with
hammer and sometimes with chisel UNDER A LAYER OF WATER.
Surprising how many polychaetes came out whole from this rough
treatment.
All the best,
Nechama Ben-Eliahu
<nbenelia at cc.huji.ac.il>
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> Dear All,
>> I've spent the weekend looking at live samples of interstitial
> fauna from shell sand, there are a lot of polychaetes, many of which are
> living in tubes within the shell fragments. What I need is some advice:
> How do I get the polychaetes out of the tubes in one piece so that I can
> identify them?
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