Hi Paul,
You can try to detach the stylet from the muscle by scrubing gently the
muscle and then make a transversal cut in the mantle near the tip of the
sylet and try to pull them out from that insertion carefully avoiding to
break them.
I stored my collection of octopus vulgaris stylets in two different
solutions Ethanol+glicerol and 4% formaline, and I found out that the
center of the stylet became darkened more quickly with the ethanol
solution, so I would recommend 4% formaline.
But yes, I suggest to measure and weight them before stored.
All the best,
Sílvia
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:40 PM, Paul Bennetts <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
>
> I recently obtained some *E. dofleini * mantles and beaks. I am beginning
> to dissect out the stylets and just want to make sure I am not going to
> dammage the outer layers in the process. What is the standard way for
> removing the stylets? Should I just leave part of the muscle attached?
>
>
> I plan on preserving the stylets in 70% ethanol as well. Will this cause
> the stylet to shrink from dehydration and should I be measuring stylet
> length width and weight before preservation?
>
>
> Any advice would help.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Paul Bennetts
>
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