SAN DIEGO
SHELL CLUB
THE FESTIVUS
CONTENTS FOR 2009-2010
Volume XLI November 12, 2009 Number 11
Program for the November 18, 2009, Meeting
Club member Benjamin Pister will present "The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative and the
Establishment of Marine Protected Areas in Southern California. The presentation will
discuss the 1999 Marine Life Protection Act, the latest initiative, and the process that has
been going on to design the marine protected areas. Several proposals have been
introduced by the Blue Ribbon Task Force and their recommendation will have been made
by the time of this talk. Ben will show the different proposals focusing on San Diego and
answer questions on why certain areas were chosen for protection under the Act. [139].
Club News
Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting, October 15, 2009; Save the Date for the
Christmas Party; Dues Are Due; The Fourteenth Annual SCAMIT Meeting.140.
Articles
Hertz, Carole M., and Barbara W. Meyers. A New Look at Cymatium (Turritriton) Gibbosum
(Broderip, 1833). 141-158.
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Volume XLI October 8, 2009 Number 10
Program for the October 15, 2009, Meeting
Cathy Moser Marlett will present a program on the Seri people, now numbering around one
thousand, who for millennia lived on the eastern shore of the Gulf of California. Their
language and rich culture, threatened by increased contact with the outside world, provide
a unique glimpse at how past Gulf peoples used the region's rich resources. The study
details the Seri knowledge and use of mollusks. More than 150 species have been
identified: most are presented with their Seri names (more than 250) and ethnographic
details. This presentation, a sampling of both shelled and unshelled mollusks, includes
photographs, graphic illustrations, and ethnographic information. [129].
Club News
From the September Party, 12 September 2009; SCAMIT Talks Mollusks; The WSM Now
Has a Blog; New Mollusk Book Announced; Save the Date for the Christmas Party. 130.
Articles
Paul Tuskes. Mission Bay Survey Update. 131-132.
Gary R.M. MacDonald. In Memoriam: James Willard Nybakken (1936-2009).133-117.
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Volume XLI August 13, 2009 Number 8
Program for the August 20, 2009, Meeting
Club member Paul Tuskes will talk about opisthobranchs in Mission Bay. His presentation
will include underwater photos of the nudibranchs and their relatives. Paul will also discuss
his two-year study of the Bubble Snail, Bulla gouldiana, with new information on its life
history and predators.[113].
Club News
Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting, July 16, 2009; Too Late for the Roster; The
Club's Annual September Party, September 12, 2009; A Generous Donation to the Club; A
Mini-Auction of Books. 114.
Articles
Jules Hertz. Report of the WSM Meeting, 2009. 115-117.
Alicia Hermosillo. A Note on the Opisthobranch Mollusks of Rocas Alijos. 118-119.
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Volume XLI July 9, 2009 Number 7
Program for the July 16, 2009 Meeting
"Effects of Human Trampling and Seasonal Sand Movement on Micromollusks of Intertidal
Algal Communities," presented by Sonya Huff, who received her Ph.D. from Scripps in
2005. Dr. Huff will begin her new position as a tenure track faculty member at Riverside City
College in fall 2009. [101].
Club News
Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting, June 18, 2009; Too Late for the Roster;
Upcoming Meetings of Interest; The Club's Annual September Party. 102.
Articles
Huber, Marcus. Name Changes for Two Well-Known Panamic Spondylids.103-111.
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Volume LXI June 11, 2009 Number 6
Club News
Minutes of the San Diego Shell Club Meeting May 21, 2009; Too Late for the Roster; The
Club's Mission Bay Survey Project; In Memoriam " Joseph "José" Johnston 1933-2009. 50.
Articles
Stebbins, Timothy D., and Douglas J. Eernisse. Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) Known
from Benthic Monitoring Programs in the Southern California Bight. Special edition. 51-100.
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Volume XLI May 14, 2009 Number 5
Program for the May 21, 2009, Meeting
"Antique Prints, Vintage Prints and Lithographs on Marine Life, Shells, Fish, and Birds."
Ben Wollman of Wollman's Classic Prints, featuring steel and copper engravings and
chromo and stone lithographs, will give a presentation on prints, the different kinds, and
how they differ from reproductions. After the presentation, members will view selections of
his prints laid out on a table. There will be no sales at the at the meeting; those interested
will take Ben Wollman's card and arrangements for purchase can be made later. [41].
Club News
The Annual San Diego Shell Club Auction-Potluck, 2009; Donors to the Club's 2009
Auction-Potluck; Rosemary Pierce, 1921-2009. 42.
Articles
García, Emilio Fabián. Sorting Out the Generic Placement of the Three Panamic Species
Assigned to Eumetula Thiele, 1912. 43-46.
Tuskes, Paul M. The Ark Clam Barbatia Reeveana from Mission Bay, 47.
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Volume XLI April 9, 2009 Number 4
Program for the April 4, 2009, Meeting
The annual Club Auction and Potluck replaces this month's regular meeting.
Club News
San Diego Shell Club Minutes, March 19, 2009; Too Late for the 2009 Roster; COA 2009
Convention: Cruising the Suncoast, July19-23. [34].
Articles
LaFollette, Patrick. Malacological Literature on the Internet. 35-37.
Hertz, Carole M. An Adventure at Playa Matanchén, Nayarit, México. 38-39.
Bertsch, Hans. Review of Opistobranquios de Brasil by Francisco J. García García, Marta
Domínguez Álvarez, and Jesús S. Troncoso. 2008. 39-40.
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Volume XLI March 12, 2009 Number 3
Program for the March 19, 2009, Meeting
Kathy and Joe Kalohi of The Pacific Conchological Club will be showing pictures and
displaying specimens collected from five days of scuba diving off of Arapawa Is. in the N/E
corner of the South Island of New Zealand. [23].
Club News
San Diego Shell Club Meeting Minutes, February 19, 2009; Too Late for the Roster; The
San Diego Shell Club's Annual Auction/Potluck. 25.
Articles
Tuskes, Paul, and Ann Tuskes. Influence of Habitat and Prey Selection of Pteropurpura
festiva, the Festive Murex. 25-29.
Hertz, Jules. The Thirteenth Annual SCUM Meeting. 30-31.
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VOLUME XLI February 12, 2009 Number 2
Program for February 19, 2009, Meeting
Dr. Cynthia Button, "The California Red Abalone (Haliotis Rufescens) and Its Population
Dynamics." Dr. Button earned her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography. Her research included hundreds of dives in the kelp forests of the coast of
California to study the life history characteristics of abalone and wavy turban shells. She is
currently a post-doc at Scripps. [13].
Club News
San Diego Shell Club Meeting Minutes, 15 January 2009; Save the Dates; Committee
Offices for 2009; 42nd Western Society of Malacologists (WSM) Annual Meeting, June
23-27, 2009. 14.
Articles
Hewitt, Susan J. The Shallow-Water Patellogastropoda (True Limpets) of the Islands of
Nevis, Leeward Islands, West Indies. 15-22. Dr. Hewitt is Field Associate in the Division of
Invertebrate Zoology (4/2006-6/2008), American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Attachment
2009 Club Membership Roster
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VOLUME XLI January 8, 2009 Number 1
Program for January 15, 2009, Meeting:
Paul Valentich-Scott, of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and a bivalve
specialist, will present an interactive, educational, illustrated, and fun program on bivalves.
Attendees will work with bivalves and learn (or re-learn) their identifying characteristics
--and much more. Don't miss this exciting program! [1]
Club News
San Diego Shell Club Meeting Minutes, 20 November 2008; The Club's Annual Christmas
Dinner Party. 2.
Articles
The Opisthobranch Fauna of Islas Tres Marías, Mexican Pacific. Alicia Hermosillo. 3-9.
Low Tides at San Felipe, Baja California, México. Compiled by Jules Hertz. 10.
Dues are Due.10.
Mission Bay Survey November 2007-2008: A Progress Report and Mission Bay Tides for
2009. Compiled by Paul Tuskes. 11-12.
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