May-June/July-August, 2012 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 31, No. 1&2 
14 MAY 2012, B’08 SYLLIDAE PART DUEX, CSD 
Larry Lovell opened the meeting with rounds of introduetions by all present. 
Upeoming meetings were then announeed: 
11 June 2012 -NHMLAC, Brada / Travisia diseussion of speeies reported and resourees used to 
identify. Additional polyehaete review 
topie TBD. 
July - no meeting due to POTW field 
aetivities. 
27 August 2012 - NHMLAC, Vasily 
Radashevsky will present on his 
reeent polyehaete studies. Speeimens 
need to be sent to Leslie ahead of time 
or given to her at the June meeting. Vasily will be reviewing So Cal material he has reeeived in 
the past. 
September - no topie as of yet. 
Oetober date TBD - NHMLAC, Dave Elgin will present on a sponge topie. He is the seeond 
author with Welton Lee on The Sponges of California. He is eurrently working on The Sponges of 
Oregon. If possible he will demo his interaetive website at the meeting. 
5 or 22 November 2012 - OCSD, Kelvin will rQYiQw Lirobittium and Tellina. 
10 Deeember 2012 - CSD, Megan will review amphiurids, trawl Parastichopus spp and 
Phyllophoridae provisionals. 
Other a nn ouncements: 
May is membership month. Please renew your membership. 
The Speeies Review Committee is in aetion again and Don Cadien is the eommittee ehair. The 
eommittee will review a list of emendations to Ed 6. Approved emendations will be implemented 
and added to Ed 7 to be released 1 July 2012. Emendations under eonsideration are of four types; 
spelling and orthography eorreetions to the eurrent list, name ehanges (generie, synonymies, 
familial and ordinal ehanges) from the published literature, speeies reported sinee the last list, and 
addition of new, vetted and approved, provisional speeies. New to Ed 7 will be eeto-parasites! 
The Taxonomie Database Committee met 24 April 2012 at CSD. There was a demo of BIOMAP 
by Dawn Olson (CSD). Shelly Moore (SCCWRP) provided progress updates on database 
strueture, additional eontent, and new resouree links. Additionally, SCAMIT has hired Crissy 
Attardo as an intern to find voueher sheets ete not already on the website. Crissy has been visiting 
labs for several months mining notebooks for voueher sheets and other taxonomie tools not 
eurrently residing in the taxonomie toolbox. To date she has given Dean Penteheff approximately 
500 files and there is more work to be done. 
The SCAS meeting was in early May and SCAMIT was present with an information and 
membership table. Three members renewed. Earry was introdueed to SCAS President Dr. 
Jonathan Baskin by Ann Dalkey. Dr. Baskin asked if SCAlMIT would be interested in hosting 
a symposium at one of the annual meetings. Earry replied that SCAMIT and its members have 
not been aetive in presenting at meetings the past few years and that we should eonsider his 
suggestion. Some topies that SCAMIT should entertain as possible presentations are; the history 
of SCAMIT, the taxonomie database projeet, taxonomie bareoding, and Morphbank. 
UPCOMING MEETINGS 
Visit the SCAJVIIT website at: www.seamit.org for the 
latest upeoming meetings announeements. 
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