Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences) articles from December 2001

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences) archives from December 2001

Proceedings of Special Symposium: New and Rare Fish and Invertebrate Species to California during the 1997-1998 El Nino Sponsored by The Southern California Academy of Sciences May 20, 2000.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Daniel J. Pondella II (1) M. James Allen (2) Introduction By some measures 1997-1998 El Nino southern oscillation (ENSO) was the strongest such event of the 20th century and perhaps the strongest of all recorded history. For most...

First Occurrence of Blackspot Wrasse, Decodon melasma Gomon 1974 (Pisces: Labridae) in California.
December 1, 2001... M. James Allen (1) Ami K. Groce (2) Wrasses (family Labridae) are epibenthic, demersal, and water-column fishes found in coastal warm-temperate and tropical waters, usually near rocky and coral reefs of the Atlantic, Indian, and...

First Occurrence of Speckletail Flounder, Engyophrys sanctilaurentii Jordan & Bollman 1890 (Pisces: Bothidae), in California.
December 1, 2001... M. James Allen (1) Ami K. Groce (2) Currently there are 29 species of flatfishes representing three families (Paralichthyidae, Pleuronectidae, and Cynoglossidae in California, with an additional species and family (Pacific lined sole,...

First record of the sabertooth blenny, Plagiotremus azaleus, in California with notes on its distribution along the Pacific coast of Baja California.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... On 8 January 1998, while performing monthly ichthyological transects in King Harbor, Redondo Beach, California (latitude 33[degrees]50.5' N, Longitude 118[degrees]24.0' W), the senior author observed two individual sabertooth blennies,...

Addition of Blacklip Dragonet, Synchiropus atrilabiatus (Garman, 1899) (Pisces: Callionymidae) to the California Ichthyofauna.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Ami K. Groce (1) Richard H. Rosenblatt (2) M. James Allen (3) Dragonets (family Callionymidae) are small, often colorful, benthic fishes found in coastal tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, but primarily...

Addition of the Calico Lizardfish, Synodus lacertinus Gilbert, 1890 (Pisces: Synodontidae) to the Ichthyofauna of the Southern California Bight.
December 1, 2001... Lizardfishes (Synodontidae) are small to moderate-sized fishes with elongate, cylindrical bodies and large, spiny toothed, lizard-like mouths. They are common benthic fishes found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans (Nelson 1994)....

First Record of the Pacific Cornetfish, Fistularia corneta Gilbert and Starks 1904, a New Species to the Southern California Fauna During the 1997-1998 El Nino.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Michael D. Curtis (1) Kevin T. Herbinson (2) On 7 May 1998, two small cornetfish (319 and 345 mm total length) were taken from the cooling water screenwell in front of the circulating water gates at the former Southern California...

Records of Mexican Barracuda, Sphyraena ensis, and Scalloped Hammerhead, Sphyrna lewini, from Southern California Associated with Elevated Water Temperatures.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... During the 1997-98 El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), abnormally warm coastal waters occurred off southern California. Based on satellite imagery, the highest sea surface temperature anomalies recorded in southern California during this event...

Occurrence of the Loosetooth Parrotfish, Nicholsina denticulata (Scaridae), from Santa Catalina Island, California.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Robert N. Lea (1) Erik D. Erikson (2) Kelly Boyle (3) Robert Given (4) The parrotfishes, family Scaridae, are characterized as specialized perciform fishes that closely associate with reefs and are primarily tropical in...

Increase in Occurrence and Abundance of Zebraperch (Hermosilla azurea) in the Southern California Bight in Recent Decades.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Erick A. Sturm (1) The zebraperch, Hermosilla azurea Jenkins and Evermann 1889, a warm-temperate member of the widespread but mainly tropical perciform family Kyphosidne, occurs in coastal waters of southern California and Baja California...

New and Unusual Reef Fish Discovered at the California Channel Islands During the 1997-1998 El Nino.
December 1, 2001... Daniel V. Richards (1) John M. Engle (2) Abstract.--Observations of warm-water species rarely seen in California are often associated with El Nino Southern Oscillations (ENSO). Here we document new occurrences of tropical reef fish at...

New and Unusual Marine Invertebrates Discovered at the California Channel Islands during the 1997-1998 El Nino.
December 1, 2001... John M. Engle (1) Daniel V. Richards (2) Abstract.--The occurrence of new and unusual subtropical invertebrates at the Channel Islands was documented for the exceptional 1997-1998 El Nino and subsequent 1998-2000 La Nina during...

Northern Range Extensions into the Southern California Bight of Ten Decapod Crustacea Related to the 1991/92 and 1997/98 El Nino Events.
December 1, 2001... David E. Montagne (1) Donald B. Cadien (2) Abstract.---The first recorded appearance in the Southern California Bight (SCB) of ten decapod crustaceans, all of which have distributions that are primarily tropical or sub-tropical, is...

Shifts in Fish and Invertebrate Assemblages of Two Southern California Estuaries during the 1997-98 El Nino.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Gregory D. Williams (1) Joy B. Zedler (2) Abstract.--Estuarine fish and invertebrate assemblages at Tijuana Estuary and L os Penasquitos Lagoon exhibited changes coincident with the 1997-1998 El Nino event. Thee fishes [Albula sp....

New Range Records of 12 Marine Invertebrates: The Role of El Nino and Other Mechanisms in Southern and Central California.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... Steve I. Lonhart (1*) Jeff W. Tupen (2) Abstract.--The occurrence of marine organisms northward of their known range limit along the eastern Pacific during E1 Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events is an increasingly well-studied...