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Our next specimen coming into the lab is Cole 1338, a developmental series of the electric ray. It’s labelled Torpedo ocellata, but this species is now classified as Torpedo torpedo. It’s been in storage for a number of years, and we need to get it ready to go out on display in the new museum. It arrived at the Cole museum in 1921 from the Naples Marine Biological Laboratory along with a number of other specimens. These were all prepared by Salvatore Lo Bianco, a renowned preparator of marine species. The researchers in Naples specialised in embryology, and this particular specimen is an excellent example. It shows fourteen stages of development, from the blastoderm through to the fully formed embryo.
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