Dissection: Marder -- Charlotte Nassim -- The Lobster Book -- September 28, 2018

Lessons From The Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience, Charlotte Nassim, c. 2018.

From page 31:
In dissection, the mandibles are removed and the carapace cut open. The esophagus and a fairly clearly delineated digestive system are cut out  of the sloppy mess surrounding it. Under a microscope, the fatty and connective tissues are carefully picked away. Usually the preparation includes the esophageal and commissural ganglia and the stomatogastic ganglion itself, with the motor nerves running from it. These last contain the axons of the motor neurons. The somata (the cell bodies of the neurons) are distributed on the outer surface of the ganglion; inside is a dense tangle of axons and dendrites called the neuropil.