Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences) articles from December 2003

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences) archives from December 2003

Pacific footballfish, Himantolophus sagamius (Tanaka) (Teleostei: Himantolophidae), found in the surf-zone at Del Mar, San Diego County, California, with notes on its morphology.
December 1, 2003... Marine Vertebrates Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0208, USA Abstract.--On 15 December 2001, a moribund adult female Himantolophus sagamius (Tanaka 1918)...

Decapod crustaceans from the Puente formation (late middle to early late Miocene), California: a possible mass death.
December 1, 2003... Abstract.--Decapod crustaceans are reported for the first time from the late middle to early late Miocene Puente Formation, Riverside County, California. A single specimen of penaeid shrimp and numerous cancrid crabs, referred to Metacarcinus...

Soil compaction and moisture status from large mammal trampling in Coleogyne (blackbrush) shrublands of southern Nevada.
December 1, 2003... Abstract.--Soil compaction from large mammal trampling was quantitatively investigated in Coleogyne ramosissima (blackbrush) shrublands of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area (RRCNCA) in southern Nevada. Fecal density decreased...

An inexpensive method to identify the elevation of tidally inundated habitat in coastal wetlands.
December 1, 2003... Abstract.--We explored the use of an inexpensive "vial" method to measure the elevations reached by a series of high tides, which included the highest tides of the year, at sites in four southern California wetlands, examined variation in the...

Gastrointestinal helminths of the black-tailed brush lizard, Urosaurus nigricaudus (phrynosomatidae), from Baja California Sur, Mexico.(Research Notes)
December 1, 2003... The black-tailed brush lizard, Urosaurus nigrieaudus (Cope, 1864), is found in a variety of habitats along the eastern side of the Peninsular Ranges from San Diego County, California, southward to the Cape Region of Baja California (Grismer...