Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences) articles from December 2005

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences) archives from December 2005

Habitat partitioning by three species of Dolphins in Santa Monica Bay, California.
December 1, 2005... Abstract.--Habitat partitioning by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis), and long-beaked common dolphins (D. capensis), were assessed during 178 surveys conducted between 1997-2000 in Santa...

Dry-season water quality in the San Gabriel River watershed.
December 1, 2005... Abstract.--Dry-season flow in the San Gabriel River system is comprised mostly of discharges from water reclamation plants (WRPs), imported water, and storm drains. Although the magnitude of dry-season discharge is generally known, the water...

Rediscovery of the Laomediid shrimp Naushonia macginitiei (Glassell, 1938) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Laomediidae) from off Southern California.(Research Notes)
December 1, 2005... Introduction The decapod crustacean genus Naushonia Kingsley, 1897, currently contains seven species of rare, burrowing shrimp-like thalassinoids (Goy and Provenzano 1979; Martin and Abele 1982; Berggren 1992; Alvarez et al. 2000). Species...

The scythe butterflyfish, Prognathodes falcifer (Pisces: Chaetodontidae), observed as a facultative cleaner.
December 1, 2005... Cleaning behavior in fishes is a well-documented phenomenon and involves a number of teleostean families (Limbaugh 1961; Deloach 1999). This behavior is expressed especially well in tropical gobies (Gobiidae), wrasses (Labridae), and...

Record of a White Sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus from Bahia de Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico, found at the Ensenada Sea Food Market.
December 1, 2005... The white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus (Richardson 1836), is an anadromous fish that lives primarily in freshwater or estuaries, and infrequently meanders in the ocean. Most of fish are found in river systems, with the Sacramento-San...