February, 2000 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 18, No. 10 
Pleijel, Fredrik. 1999. Phylogenetic taxonomy, a farewell to species, and a revision of 
Heteropodarke ( Hesionidae , Polychaeta, Annelida) . Systematic Biology 48(4):755-789. 
[please note, the italicization of taxa traditionally not so treated is a consequence of the 
removal of special treatment for species level. The author intends all taxa to be equivalent 
and rank-less, thus all are italicized]. 
Powilleit, Martin & Jan Kube. 1999. Effects of severe oxygen depletion on macrobenthos in the 
Pomeranian Bay (Southern Baltic Sea): a case study in a shallow, sublittoral habitat 
characterised by low species richness. Journal of Sea Research 42(3):221-234. 
Smit, Nico J., Jo G. Van As, & Linda Basson. 1999. A redescription of the adult male and 
praniza of Gnathia africana Barnard, 1914 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from 
southern Africa. Folia Parasitologica 46(3):229-240. 
Van Syoc, Robert J. & Rasmus Winther. 1999. Sponge-inhabiting barnacles of the Americas: A 
new species of Acasta (Cirripedia, Archaeobalanidae), first record from the eastern 
Pacific, including discussion of the evolution of cirral morphology. Crustaceana 72:467- 
486. 
White, Tracey R., April K. Wakefield Pagels, & Daphne G. Fautin. 1999. Abyssal sea anemones 
(Cnidaria: Actiniaria) of the northeast Pacific symbiotic with molluscs: Anthosactis 
nomados, a new species, and Monactis vestita (Gravier, 1918). Proceedings of the 
Biological Society of Washington 112(4):637-651. 
Wollscheid, Evi & Heike Wagele. 1999. Initial results on the molecular phylogeny of the 
Nudibranchia (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) based on 18S rDNA data. Molecular 
Phylogenetics and Evolution 13(2):215-226. 
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