September-December, 2012 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 31 Nos. 3-4 
SD4. All three of the speeies were sampled at B’08 Channel Island station 7527. Unfortunately, 
all the speeimens were juveniles with the max size of those eonsidered large enough to identify, 
being 1.5em. There was some diseussion of the ossiele mounts and external appearanee but no 
identifieation for any of the three provisional speeies was aehieved. Megan was hoping that more, 
larger, speeimens would be sampled during the B’ 13 projeet, allowing her to eontinue her efforts 
at identifieation. 
Lastly Megan went over a series of slides showing interesting trawl eaught eehinoderms from 
past Bight projeets. Foeusing mainly on those speeies that oeeur outside standard monitoring 
program depth ranges. Sinee the Bight projeets tend to sample different habitats, unusual/not 
often seen speeies are frequently eneountered. 
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