Southern California Association of 
Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists 
3720 Stephen White Drive 
San Pedro, California 90731 
May, 1999 SCAMIT Newsletter Vol. 18, No. 1 
SUBJECT: 
Cnidaria: A review of the MMS Atlas Vol. 3 
with the authors 
GUEST SPEAKER: 
Dr. Eric Hochberg and John Jlubenkov 
DATE: 
18 June 1999 
TIME: 
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p. m. 
LOCATION: 
Dancing Coyote Ranch 
20355 Hwy 76 
Pauma Valley, CA 
The next meeting will be our long delayed and 
much anticipated Cnidarian meeting. Speakers 
will be Dr. Eric Hochberg from the Santa 
Barbara Museum of Natural History, and John 
Ljubenkov. We will be going over our 
questions, comments and suggestions on the 
cnidarian volume of the Taxonomic Atlas of 
the Santa Maria Basin series. Other cnidarian 
questions arising from B’98 sampling will also 
be discussed; including counting conventions 
for colonial organisms, Tubularia vs. 
Ectopleura, The sea spp., and other gorgonians. 
The meeting will be held at John & Julie 
Ljubenkov’s Dancing Coyote Rancho at the 
foot of Mt. Palomar. This meeting is on 18 
June, a Friday rather than a Monday. Those 
wanting to stay over at the rancho, or arrive 
early, are welcome. Accommodations are 
limited, however, and you should contact John 
or Julie at (760)742-2238 or via e-mail at 
ljubenko@pacbell.net to let them know. 
Chone mollis - 
staining pattern 
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