September-December, 2012 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 31 Nos. 3-4 
As a public service, here are a few minor eorreetions to figure origin eitations for Bureh, 1945 
(Explanation of Plate 1, page 17). Figure 36 is from Dali 1897 (plate 1, fig. 8) not Pilsbry and 
Sharp. Figure 37 is from Pilsbry and Sharp 1897-1898 (plate 34, fig. 3) not Dali, as Bureh 
suspeeted. 
To B or not to sp B? 
And last, but eertainly not least, we revisited the Tellina spp eonundrum. Mike MeCarthy 
ereated a test, of sorts, with dishes holding various eombinations of Tellina spp. The dishes were 
not labeled and at least one representative from eaeh ageney present examined the dishes and 
reeorded their identifieations. The results were tabulated and for the most part everyone was on 
the same page, with the biggest differenee being in the name usage. All the ageneies, exeept CSD, 
eonsider Telllina cadieni Valentieh Seott & Coan 2000 a separate and distinet speeies found in 
very shallow water and bay habitats. The off-shore “pinkish” Tellina is identified by this group 
as Tellina sp B SCAMIT 1995. However, CSD identifies the off-shore pink form as T cadieni 
based on eonversations with Paul Valentieh-Seott and Gene Coan at the May 14, 2001, SCAMIT 
meeting [K. Barwick note: this conversation did not make it into the official meeting minutes]. 
At this meeting both men examined speeimens of the offshore speeies and thought that they 
were probably the same as the T cadieni they deseribed from the bay. CSD does not sample in 
shallower water and/or bays and so has yet to see an example of what some of the other ageneies 
would eall the true T cadieni, whieh they maintain, despite the input from Paul and Gene, is not 
the same as the offshore speeies. They felt that Paul and Gene did not see enough examples of 
the bay form and the offshore form side by side, and if they had, they would agree they are two 
distinet speeies. 
At this point in the diseussion, Kelvin brought up the faet that there is no formal voueher sheet for 
F sp B to eompare to T cadieni whieh was deseribed in Coan, et al., 2000. Kelvin, who does not 
have a elear eoneept of T. sp B, ealled for a volunteer to ereate, at the very least, an ID sheet for 
F sp B. Amongst deafening silenee, Megan Filly volunteered to ereate a sheet showing images of 
both the F cadieni from Paul Seott, and F sp B (the off-shore form). She will be sending the sheet 
to Tony Phillips and John Fjubenkov for input [M. Lilly note June 24, 2016: this was never done, 
largely due to the fact that she has no specimens of the T. sp B of other agencies from which to 
create a sheet]. To date, Tony and John are the only two taxonomists present to have reeorded F 
cadieni as part of their work in the bay. [K.Barwick note June 24, 2016: The SCAMIT Newsletter 
(May, 2001; Vol. 20(1)) sheds some much needed light on this problem of attribution and 
description of Tellina sp B. In the minutes for the May 14 meeting there is an explanation and 
justification for erecting this provisional. Some of the confusion stems from the fact that the 
correct year should be 2001 (based on the May newsletter) not 1995 as was codified beginning 
with Edition 4 of the Species list published in 2001. This was not known or mentioned by those 
present at the time of the 2012 meeting.] 
10 DECEMBER 2012, PRE-B’13 ECHINODERM REVIEW, OCSD 
Attendance: Megan Filly, Robin Gartman, Wendy Emight, CSD; Dean Pasko, eonsultant; Tony 
Phillips, eonsultant; Don Cadien, FACSD; Faura Terriquez, Kelvin Barwiek, OCSD; Farry 
Fovell, Cheryl Brantley, Fred Stem, FACSD; Craig Campbell, Greg Fyon, CFAEMD; Carol 
Paquette, MBC 
There are no business minutes from the Deeember meeting, but following is a summary of the 
eehinoderm presentation by Megan Filly. 
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Publication Date: 6 July 2016 
