November, 1999 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 18, No.7 
thoroughness of review of the Mollusks 
Edition 1 nomenclature evident in Mollusks 
Edition 2.1 am, however, disturbed that no 
mention is made of Palmer as a resource for 
Carpenter nomenclatural issues in Edition 2. As 
a result I find I cannot accept the changes 
proposed by Turgeon et al on faith, as I would 
like to do. 
To avoid endless wrangling with these dates, I 
propose to adopt the date indicated by Palmer 
(which generally also conforms to the usage in 
the Atlas series) for Carpenter dates in Ed. 4 
ofthe SCAMIT list. In specific instances where 
the date of publication issue is directly 
referenced and explicitly laid out, changes 
from Palmer would be made. Lacking such 
definite indications, no revisionary date 
changes would be accepted, including those 
listed in the AFS Mollusk second edition. 
Other viewpoints should be brought forward, 
so that all sides of this issue may be reviewed 
prior to production of Edition 4. Your 
contribution to this discussion is solicited. The 
SCAMIT Newsletter seems the perfect place 
for such an exchange of opinion (and, 
hopefully, fact). Please send comments on this 
issue to me at dcadien@lacsd.org or via snail 
mail to D. Cadien, Marine Biology Lab - 
JWPCP, 24501 S. Figueroa St., Carson, CA., 
90745. 
END NOTE 
The unkown Arcidae that graced the cover of 
our September Newsletter has since been 
indentified by Paul Scott. The animal is a 
juvenile Anadara multicostata (G. B. Sowerby 
I 1833). 
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