May, 1999 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 18, No.l 
Larry’s small specimen, confirming that it was 
different than Tony’s specimen. The adult 
Marphysa specimen will be described as 
Morphysa sp 1. 
We then moved on to the family Sabellidae. 
Tony brought some Chone specimens for us to 
look at. The first specimen was his Chone sp 1 
from Santa Cruz Island (station 2519). It had a 
large, non-staining half moon on the collar. 
Leslie Harris identified the specimen as Chone 
minuta and said the relatively large size of the 
non-staining area was within the range for this 
species. We next looked at Tony’s Chone sp 2. 
He had found them from Catalina (11 meters), 
Long Beach Harbor (16 meters), Santa Cruz 
Island (66 meters), and Santa Monica Bay (45 
meters). These specimens had a high collar 
with a non-staining band all the way around the 
top. The setae were similar to C. mollis in that 
they were spatulate with mucronate tips. There 
was an interesting plaque on the collar; it 
stained darkly and evenly with methyl green. 
After further investigation at the meeting and 
looking at Banse 1972, we concluded that it 
was one of the two “morphs” of C. mollis that 
were described in Banse 1972. Tony’s 
specimen matched Banse’s C. mollis from 
Tomales Bay which is different in staining 
pattern from the C. mollis we typically 
encounter in S. California. 
24 MAY Meeting 
The meeting was called to order by Ron 
Velarde, at approximately 9:40 a.m.. 
Unfortunately the only people in attendance 
were Ron Velarde (CSDMWWD), Megan Lilly 
(CSDMWWD) and Don Cadien (CSDLAC) 
with brief morning visits by Kelvin Barwick 
(CSDMWWD) and Kathy Langan 
(CSDMWWD). 
During the business meeting Ron updated us 
on SCAMIT’s financial status. Our treasurer, 
Ann Dalkey, has transferred the SCAMIT 
savings into a CD with a higher annual yield. 
We were then reminded of the upcoming WSM 
at Cal State Fullerton from June 13 - 17. Ron 
passed around an annoucement for the 
meetings. 
Don Cadien will soon have a list of duplicate 
reprints for sale from his Jan Stock collection. 
The cost will consist of lcent per page for 
reprints and 3 cents per page for originals. 
These are likely to appeal only to crusty folks, 
as virtually all deal with crustaceans. Contact 
him if you think you might be interested, and 
he can send you the list (well over a thousand 
entries). 
In response to the recent article resurrecting the 
shrimp Eualus subtilis from it’s synonymy with 
E. lineatus (see last months NEW 
LITERATURE section), Ron Velarde has gone 
back and reviewed specimens of Eualus 
encountered by the City of San Diego’s Ocean 
Monitoring Program. He found the species 
taken off San Diego was E. subtilis. Ron is 
preparing a table of separatory characters for 
the three species of Eualus we might 
encounter. When completed it will be placed in 
the taxonomic tools section of the website. 
Next an in-depth discussion ensued on what to 
do with the Amphioplus hexacanthus problem. 
Hendler synonomized A. hexacanthus with 
Dougaloplus amphacanthus back in 1996, 
based on reexamination of the type specimens. 
However, many taxonomists at the various 
agencies feel that they are getting a distinct 
species from D. amphacanthus. This distinct 
species has an oral papillae pattern similar to 
D. amphacanthus , but has no superficial 
structures on the aboral surface of the disk. It 
has been called A. hexacanthus by most local 
taxonomists, but due to the synonomy, this 
name is no longer available. Therefore, what 
to do with this species? Kathy Langan and 
Megan Lilly have been collecting D. 
amphacathus, D. sp A, and A. hexacanthus 
since the SCAMIT meeting held with Dr. 
Hendler in ‘97 and have sent them off for his 
examination. Until Dr. Hendler can examine 
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