May-June/July-August, 2012 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol.31,No. 1&2 
Kelvin then reminded those present that the upeoming WSM meeting will be June 24-27 at 
UCSC, and one of the main symposia topies is Opisthobranehs led by Terry Gosliner. 
With that the taxonomie portion of the meeting started. Ron Velarde began with a review of the 
first Syllid meeting (Nov 2011, SCAMIT NL Vol 30 no. 3&4). There was a Syllidae subfamily 
review with diseussion. Leslie provided many eomments with pietures of live speeimens, 
espeeially the subfamily Autolytinae. The materials Ron presented will be available on the 
website. 
The afternoon was spent reviewing and identifying 18 unlabeled syllid speeies (lab praetieal 
format) prepared by Ron with a review of eorreet answers at the end of the day. It was a full day 
of Syllidae!! 
11 JUNE 2012, POLYCHAETES, NHMLAC 
Larry Lovell opened the meeting with introduetions. 
Next was a review of upeoming meetings. Additions sinee the last set of upeoming meeting 
announeements are as follows: The date for the November mollusk meeting was set for Monday 
Nov 5* and will be lead by Kelvin Barwiek at OCSD. Deeember will be the annual SCAMIT 
Christmas party. 
Other a nn ouncements: 
Leslie will give her presentation on the importanee of taxonomy (given last year in Vladivostok) 
at the upeoming WSM meeting June 24-27 at UCSC. 
It was then time for polyehaete taxonomy. First up was Ron Velarde who shared images of loeal 
Brada and Travisia speeies. 
Tony Phillips then presented on Ophelina sp A SCAMIT (from Hyperion samples), and passed 
out a voueher sheet. 
Larry then lead a further diseussion on the topies of the day: Brada, Travisia, md Arcteobia ef 
anticostiensis. He handed out a eharaeter table and key to loeal Travisia. Additionally he provided 
baekground diseussion on Arcteobia and notosetal eharaeters defining it, and their similarity with 
Malmgreniella and Harmothoe. There are historieal ehanges in name usage leading to eonfusion 
when updating old keys and with interpretation/meaning regarding the presenee of two types of 
genera-defining notosetae. 
Following luneh, the group examined speeimens of Brada pluribranchiata and B. pilosa noting 
the external papillations. B. pluribranchiata possesses large papillae with a seeondary elongate 
papilla, while B. pilosa laeks large papillae and possesses only smaller filiform papillae. 
We then moved on to examination of members of the genus Travisia', T gigas, T pupa, and T 
brevis. Nephridial pores are not as deseribed for T. brevis (setigers 3-14, not 7-25). The nephridial 
pore distribution is the same for all three loeal speeies and seems to be a generie eharaeter. The 
posterior parapodial lobes and degree of postulation on the middle annulation (tri-annulate) of 
anterior and posterior segments is different between T. brevis and T. pupa. It was noted that T. 
granulata Moore 1923 has not been reported by any SCAMIT members. It is reported in Hartman 
1969 as eolleeted in shelf depths in eoarse sand and roeks, and hard paeked sand. Those are 
diffieult habitats to sample. 
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Publication Date: 9 September 2015 
