Southern California Association of 
Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists 
3720 Stephen White Drive 
San Pedro, California 90731 
November, 1999 SCAMIT Newsletter Vol. 18, No. 7 
SUBJECT: 
B’98 Problem Polychaetes 
GUEST SPEAKER: 
none 
DATE: 
13 December 1999 
TIME: 
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p. m. 
LOCATION: 
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 
Worm Lab 
Our next meetings will continue the theme of 
B’98 problem animal identification. In some 
cases reanalysis QC materials will also be 
discussed. There will a problem polychaete 
meeting on Monday, December 13 th , at the 
worm lab of the Los Angeles County Natural 
History Museum, and we hope to have a guest 
speaker in attendance. Consideration of B’98 
problem animals will continue at meetings in 
January: a non-polychaete meeting on Monday 
10 January in San Diego at the CSDMWWD 
lab, and a polychaete meeting on Tuesday 18 
January at the Worm Lab of the Natural 
History Museum (Monday is the Martin Luther 
King Day holiday). The SCAMIT Christmas 
Party will be held on Saturday the 11 th of 
December at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in 
San Pedro. Members and their guests should 
arrive around 6pm. 
Diplodonta orbella (A.A. Gould 1851) 
Station 2423, Mission Bay, 7/24/98, 3.4 m 
Photo by K. Barwick 11/18/99 
Scale bar = mm 
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