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January 1981

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The OPISTHOBRANCH NEWSLETTER is published by Steven J. Long, 359 Roycroft Ave,
Long Beach, California 94501, USA. Telephone 213-439 - 2028. Subscription rates are
$15.00 per year for individuals and $17.50 per year for institutions. Back volumes are
available at $10.00 per volume. Microfiche (24X reduction) of back volumes are $5.00 per
volume. 1979 subscription paid ; 1980 subscription paid ___; 1981 subscription paid
__; Total amount owed ; If your records do not agree please notify me at once.

EDITOR’S NOTE

In February I moved from Santa Clara to Whipple Avenue in Redwood City. in July I
moved to Ash St. in Redwood City. In October I moved to Alameda. in November I
moved to Long Beach and hope to be able to stay at this address for quite some time to
come. My apologies for delays with the newsletter and any inconvience I may have
caused.

Jennifer and I were married on December 24, 1980, in Los Angeles, California. Kristin,
my daughter, is now twelve and was conceived about the same time as the ON. Jennifer
has a two year old, Tom, who will be living with us in Long Beach most of the time.

My mother, Ruth, survived two strokes and a respiratory arrest during October and
December, and is living in the back house, 361 Royeroft Avenue. She is recovering very
well. It was one big year for us all.

With this issue I am working to catch back up to schedule for publication and get back
to a monthly output. Since I still do not have a printing system set up it may be a bit
erratic for a while. The remaining pages of volume 12 for 1980 will appear in the next
month or two and include almost all of the remaining older citatiions. At this point I
am not certain whether they will go out as one 40 page issue or as two 20 page issues.
It depends how much time I can find to type the 989 citations. As of January 11, 1981,
I have almost 500 of them typed. With a lot of hard work I should be able to get
volume 13 going on schedule and keep it there while completing volume 12. You should
expect an issue each month with rare exception. I will try to provide advance notice
when I will be combining issues. Two or more issues may still be combined to allow
publication of special projects and papers (see below).

With the growth of this field of biological research has come a concurrent growth in the
number of projects and consequent papers submitted to refereed journals. Publication
delays lengthen. The OPISTHOBRANCH NEWSLETTER solicits manuscripts of 500 words
or about, on any topic concerning opisthobranch biology. With the growth in number of
researchers has come an increased need to share topics of question and resolve; let the
ON be your sounding block. We invite, for rapid publication, short papers and notes on -
taxonomic disagreements, taxonomic clarifications; preannouncements and queries
concerning undescribed species, ecological observations on opisthobranchs, and range and
depth extensions. We even invite approval or protest to recent descriptions and rebutals
to nomenclatural changes.

The postal rates are increasing in 1981 and will cause an increase in the ON’s expenses.
Donations of $35.00 per page will be appreciated for papers you wish to have published in
the ON. This is not mandatory but will definitely help! I will also be pleased to send
out reprints of papers published in other journals if you will provide me with $13.00 per
page postage and about 100 copies of the paper. The article will be sent to each of the
eurrent individual subscribers (not to institutional subscribers). ,

Suggestions and comments from readers are always welcome. Please let me know your
thougnts on my plans. 2 AN OF NATURAL oo

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OPISTHOBRANCH NEWSLETTER Volume 13, Number i, Page 2
PERSONAL NOTES

From Kikutaro Baba: "I am still working. In June 1980 I had a brief time of visiting —
Canada for sightseeing. During November of 1980 Prof. Dr. J.S. Bleakney of the Acadia
University, Nova Scotia came to Japan and stayed at the Seto M.B.L. of the Kyoto ~~~
University. He collected and studied live specimens of the Ascoglossa. I spoke with
him."

From Eveline Marcus (7 November 1980): "You want facts for the News: the general
happenings of Perpignan, Edmunds has already reported. The opisthobranch meetings were
fruitful. I have a MS on Ascoglossan Systematics in press in the Journal of Molluscan
Studies (Supplement 1981, August), and by the discussions I had to change some ideas.
Today I am mailing the corrections. My trip was marvellous. I began with a visit to the
Gosliners, who are now in Cape Town, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, South African
Museum. Terry had been there for 6 months, and had already collected 78 species of
opisthobranchs, 25 of which he showed alive! And slides of all!!! Later he and Bonnie
went to Vancouver meeting, and then were -in Perpignan. Together we 3 went to Kruger
Park, but there we did not find the least opisthobranchs. Instead, Zebras, Giraffes,
EBlefants, Hippos, Rhinos, Hyenas, Antilopes, and Prolopes, and many other of the larger
animals. Then I flew, the nearest way, tanking at Lisbon, to Jerusalem, where there are
some old friends. They took me to Eilat, a large Ceratosoma, bright pink-red, was in one
the aquaria. The reef with its fish was quite exciting. We found only some lesser
Anaspidacea and Notaspidacea, but we did not collect. In Germany I stayed with Luise
Schmekel, and with my brother. On a side step to Madeira the coast was inaccessible.
Turbellarian meeting in Belgium. Lazy days at Banyuls-sur-mer with Luise. Canada
without opisthobranchs. Nahant with Trish Morse and others. Washington no direct
colleagues, neither in Miami. Great events for the old ladies in two old age homes were
when I projected my slides for them. They had never thought that. such beauty exists!!
Perhaps such a show in an old age home would be a good thing for amateurs or scientists
with free time which they would like to spend in a good action? Furthermore I got a MS
on the West Atlantic Tritoniids, no. 7 of my "Catalogue" to press, also for 1980. Today
I was told that the money for print is granted. Now I begin no. 8, but still don’t know
which group I shall choose." z

Clayton Carlson and Patty Jo Hoff are still in Guam and collecting new animals. This
year’s Christmas card is a very nice white Chromodorid with reddish colored bands around
the branchiae and the rhinophores, collected at Palau. i

Melissa Barbour.and Jim Sutton are still.in Alameda. Melissa is doing some work with the
MacFarland collecting at the California Academy of Sciences and Jim should have recently
ecompleted a large survey of mollusks around Alameda and Oakland shorelines.

Mary Wickston has photos and ranges on Jorunna sp. and a range extension on Aplysia. I
need a current address for Mary.

Dick Roller has started his Fruit Jar Newsletter again and is still interested in keeping up
with new branch names.

I visited with Dan & Ann Gotshall on December 20. Dan was in bed with a flu bug but
was cheerful as usual. Ann does most of the work handling book sales for their Sea
Challengers, 1851 Don Avenue, Los Osos, California 93402, and is always most helpful.
Their telephone is 805/528-0529. i

Bob Burn has spent a lot of time during the past six months collecting and observing a
small, less than 3mm long Doridella that has turned up abundantly on the bryozoan on
brown algae in intertidal pools. During the same time a few new species and new

records have been taken, belonging to the genera Polycera, Aegires, Okenia, Tergipes and
Hermaea. A peculiar little bubble, Noalda, with tail like Aglaja and exposed shell, has
also been taken in small numbers. With summer [Australian] holidays approaching, Bob
hopes to visit a few different localities in search of more new and unusual species.

CURRENT EVENTS
Jim Lance gave an excellent color slide show of Panamic and Indo - Pacific branechs to a

group of about 32 very attentive “branch” enthusiasts in San Luis Obispo (D.W. Behren’s
home) in November 1980. Thanks to Jim from Dave!

OPISTHOBRANCH NEWSLETTER Volume 13, Number 1, Page =

=. & WSN will be held in

The combined meetings of ASZ, AMS, ASLO, ABS, CSZ, ESA, SS
mg @pisthobranch papers are

Seattle, Washington from December 26-30, 1960. The followin
scheduled for presentation:

DIMATTEO, T. - Inking as a defensive mechanism in A. dactylomela (Gastropoda:
Opisthobranchia).

HARRIES LaGe & Sed. DURE YY. = the influence of prey size on v2= preference) heirarchy ory
the nudibranch Aeolidia papillosa (L.).

JENSEN, K.R. Chemoreception as a factor in food location of Elysia cause.

KEMPF, S.C. - Symbiosis between zooxanthellae and three specie= of nudibranchs.
KUZIRIAN, A.M. & D.L. ALKON. - Infraciliary scaffolding network for the sensory cells
in Hermissenda statocysts.

SWITZER-DUNLAP, M. Life histoy characteristics of Dolabella 2uricularia, a long-lived
aplysiid gastropod.

The SCCWRP meeting in Long Beach was very interesting and ¢zciting. It was a very

long day for me as I found my mother had suffered a stroke wren i went to visit after
the meeting and spent the next six weeks in the hospital, most_y in intensive care units.

Dave Behrens went through all of the slides, for his book and snc weed copies of it to all
present. Bob Henderson gave a preliminary paper by Henderson = E<¢hrens. Jay Shrake
gave a preliminary paper by Don Cadien and others spoke on sev=rel topics relating to
Opisthobranchs. About 50 people were in attendance.

During March, 1981, ABC television will do a segment on Nuditrenc
"Those Amazing Animals" [if the show is still on the air]. Jiz Lan
with Alan Landsburg Productions for this segment.

ns for their series
ce has been working

ADDRESS CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS

Dr. Hans Bertsch

P.O. Box 2041

Spring Valley, CA 92077
714/463-6833

Dr. Thomas Gascoigne
16A York Grove
Peckham, London SE15 2NY, England

Dr. Terrence Gosliner

South African Museum

P.O. Box 61

Cape Town 8000, Republic of South Africa

Dr. Roberta Imrie Griffiths,

Department of Oceanography

University of Cape Town,

RONDEBOSCH 7700, Cape Town, P.O.B. 594
Republic of South Africa

Dr. Anne Hurst d’Espremenil,
Upper Flat, 42 West Fourth Street
Celleardyke, Anstruther,

Fife, Scotland

Dr. Alan Kuzirian

Laboratory of Biophysics

Marine Biological Laboratory

Woodshole, Mass. 02543

PRIVATE: P.O. Box 673, Cataumat, Mass. 02543

Henk K. Mienis

Zoological Museum

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel

Dr. Claude Poizat
PRIVATE: Les Prairies, C 19, 159, Chemin de Chateau-Gom ber:
13013 Marseille, France

OPISTHOBRANCH NEWSLETTER Volume 13, Number 1, Page 4 roll

REVIEW
Cadien (in) Straughan & Klink (1980)

A very useful list of opisthobranch species "Known" (?) from the southern California
bight. As this document qualifies as formal journal publication, I am compelled to point
out several severe problems in the opisthobranch section. They are undocumented and
unsupported synonymies of two species: Aplysiopsis enteromorphae (Cockerell & Eliot,
1905) = Aplysiopsis smithi (Marcus, 1961) = Phyllobranchopsis enteromorphae C. & E. and)
Flabellinopsis iodinea (Cooper, 1862) = Coryphella sabulicola Cowen & Laur, 1978. |
Although I tend to agree with the latter, an explanation of the basis for these changes
would certainly be preferable; and, many species included in the list are of questionable
status and have avoided collection and/or documentation since originally described. This,
of course, is a reflection upon the need for a little "formal" house cleaning on many of
our older species, particularly those of the Bullomorpha.

To my knowledge, this may be the first "formal" reference to Tritonia diomedea as a
senior synonym to T. exsulans, although Thompson (1971) did imply it.

Many new species are known from the bight, however, only one is listed here,
Cadiens’s Rumecinida sp. (?)

Because this document is not widely available, two points of interest should be noted:
a) the range extension of Alderia modesta from Elkhorn Slough to Newport Bay,
California, 300 miles, and b) although dropped by Smith & Carlton, 1975, Aglaja nana’s
range is extended from San Francisco Bay to Newport Bay, California, 375 miles. Does
this mean that A. mana is still valid? Other than these oversights, a formidable work. --
Dave Behrens.

FOR SALE

Dave Behren’s book entitled "Pacific Coast Nudibranchs" is still available from the
OPISTHOBRANCH NEWSLETTER at $14.95 plus $1.00 for shipping. California residents
must add appropriate sales tax. A review of this book appeared in the San Luis Obispo
TELEGRAM-TRIBUNE on Saturday, December 20, 1980 which includes a picture of Dave
and of Chromodoris macfarlandi. About 2000 copies of Dave’s book have been sold to
date. :

READER REQUESTS

Howard Katzman wants information on Arctic and Antarctic biology including unpublished
photos. Howard is a Los Angeles teacher and is working on a paper for school including
possible publication. Contact him at 2043 Veteran Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90025.

Bob Burn wants a few preserved specimens of Cylichnella inculta (Gould, 1855) to
compare with local fauna found in Australia. He would like to obtain any of the
Californian bullomorphs in exchange for similar Australian material or nudibranchs.

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