Southern California Association of 
Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists 
3720 Stephen White Drive 
San Pedro, California 90731 
August, 1999 SCAMIT Newsletter Vol. 18, No. 4 
SUBJECT: 
B’98 Non-polychaete problem animals 
GUEST SPEAKER: 
none 
DATE: 
13 September 1999 
TIME: 
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p. m. 
LOCATION: 
City of San Diego Marine Biology Lab 
4918 N. Harbor Dr. #201 
San Diego, CA 
Eucrassatella fluctuata (Carpenter 1864) 
station 2081, 7/24/98, 50m, Catalina Is. 
Photo ID by P. Scott 8/12/99 
The first September Meeting will be held at the 
City of San Diego’s Marine Biology Lab on the 
13th. It will be a continuation in a series of 
meetings dealing with all problem 
identifications arising from the B’98 project. 
All phyla except polychaeta are open for 
discussion. The second meeting of the month 
will deal with polychaete ID’s and is scheduled 
for 27 September at the Los Angeles County 
Museumof Natural History. 
NEW LITERATURE 
Biological invasions, their monitoring, their 
outcomes, and the perspectives they provide on 
ecological principles are an increasing area of 
attention in the literature. The invasion of 
North American freshwaters by the european 
Zebra Mussel is only the most conspicuous 
example of this trend. In California waters we 
have been closely watching the progress of the 
introduced New Zealand marine snail Philine 
auriformis , and now the European Green Crab 
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