The 4^th edition of A Taxonomic Listing of Soft Bottom Macro- and Megainvertebrates from Infaunal & Epibenthic Monitoring Programs in the Southern California Bight has now been released and is available here for downloading. 

 The 4^th Edition expands on the 3^rd by the addition of newly reported taxa from POTW monitoring programs and the Southern California Bight 1998 Regional Monitoring Project (Bight’98).  The inclusion of records from Bight’98 expands the list’s coverage to include Southern California bays and harbors, six of the eight Channel Islands, as well as the Mexican coastal shelf south to Bahía Todos Santos.

 The 4^th 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 approximately 1,300KB. Once downloaded, 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 4^th 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.

 Click here to download the PDF version