Greetings:
Visit the web site <http://www/scamit/org> for the material below
The Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists
(SCAMIT) has just announced the availability of the 4th edition of its
taxonomic list. This is an list that includes encountered polychaete species
collected in various marine programs in Southern California and is
electronically available for free.
The 4th edition reflects the organisms collected from over 17,700 infaunal
samples at 1,700+ sites and 4,300+ otter trawls at 650 sites within the
habitats covered. There are 2,076 species-level taxa on the list
representing 15 phyla, 37 classes, 127 orders, 526 families, and 1,229
genera. The list has also been emended to reflect nomenclatural changes
since the previous edition.
The Listing is in Portable Document Format (PDF) and is downloadable as
a self-extracting zip file. The downloadable file is approximately 1,200KB.
After downloading the self-extracting zip file, double click on it to unzip the
document. The default "Unzip to" folder is your Windows/Temp folder
Once extracted, the PDF document may be viewed, searched and/or
printed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Reader is distributed by
Adobe free of charge and may be downloaded from their web site
(www.abobe.com).
While the 4th Edition in PDF is freely available to members and non-
members alike, SCAMIT members will each receive a comb-bound, two-
sided copy as a benefit of membership. These will be sent to the members
as soon as available from the printers.
bye for now
Tom Parker
CSDLAC
<tparker at lacsd.org>
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