January-April, 2013 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 31 Nos. 5-6 
14 JANUARY 2013, POLYCLADIDA, OCSD 
President Larry Lovell opened the meeting with introduetions and announeing upeoming 
meetings. Literature review meetings have been suggested for February, Mareh, April, May, and 
June in preparation for the upeoming Bight ’13 projeet. 
Other announeements: SCAS 2013 
will be May 3-4 at CSULB. SCAMIT 
will be hosting a symposium with 
member talks on taxonomy, eeology, 
QA/QC, and interealibration. To date 
there are eight talks seheduled. 
Larry reminded us again that 2013 
Offieer Eleetions are looming. He 
repeated that Laura Terriquez had been nominated for Treasurer along with the eurrent suite of 
offieers being nominated to serve another term. 
Don Cadien briefly took the floor to remind the Speeies Review Committee that they are “on 
notiee” and the July deadline for the next edition of the Speeies List is fast approaehing. 
Kelvin Barwiek then announeed that OCSD will be seeking an RFP for Crustaeea taxonomy 
training. 
With the business eomplete it was time for Tony Phillips to take the floor and lead the meeting on 
Polyeladida. Tony started by thanking Kelvin and OCSD for hosting the meeting, and he thanked 
Dean for help with formatting speeies pages. 
Tony touehed on his preferred literature when dealing with flatworms. Following is a listing: 
• Newman 2003, Marine Flatworms: The World of the Polyelads; this book has good family 
deseriptions and pietures 
• Hyman 1953, The Polyelad Flatworms of the Paeifle Coast of North Ameriea 
• Hyman 1955, The Polyelad Flatworms of the Paeifle Coast of North Ameriea: Additions and 
Correetions 
• Hyman 1959, Some Turbellaria from the Coast of California 
• Heath and MeGregor 1912, New Polyelads from Monterey Bay 
• Faubel, 1983 and 1984, two publieations dealing with the Cotylea and Aeotylea 
• Prudhoe, 1985, a Monograph on Polyelad Turbellaria 
• Freeman, 1930 and 1933, Polyelads of Pt. Furmin and the San Juan Region 
• Boone 1929, Polyelads of the California eoast 
One of the guides used by Tony is John Holleman’s key (Key to the Polyelads of the Paeifle 
Coast of North and Central Ameriea (https://flatwormsroek.wordpress.eom/). Tony noted that it is 
important to be able to aseertain pharynx type in order to proeeed with the most generalized ID. 
He distributed handouts of his presentation and flies, as well as his latest key - Polyeladida of the 
Southern California Bight; see the Tools seetion of the SCAMIT website. The speeies names used 
in Tony’s key are based on WoRMS (http://www.marinespeeies.org/). For eaeh speeies that he 
addresses, he also lists depth and geographie distribution when possible. 
UPCOMING MEETINGS 
Visit the SCAMIT website at: www.seamit.org for the 
latest upeoming meetings announeements. 
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