0c6acf25-93a1-4b04-a6db-ff7b00504720 https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=lacm_mbc_mms1 mmscamp Regina Wetzer Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center

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+1-213-763-3386 rwetzer@nhm.org https://nhm.org/person/wetzer-regina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-5150 Jenessa Wall Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Assistant Collections Manager

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https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6136-6734 Adam Wall Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Collections Manager, Crustacea

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awall@nhm.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2223-6757 N. Dean Pentcheff Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County DISCO Project Manager

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dpentche@nhm.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4049-3941 Kathy Omura Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Collections Manager, Marine Biodiversity Center

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+1-213-763-3386 komura@nhm.org https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6975-7647 Leslie Harris Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Collections Manager, Polychaetes

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lharris@nhm.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5792-543X Vijay Barve Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Digitization Project Manager

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vbarve@nhm.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567 Regina Wetzer Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center

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+1-213-763-3386 rwetzer@nhm.org https://nhm.org/person/wetzer-regina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-5150 Vijay Barve Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Digitization Project Manager

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vbarve@nhm.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567 2025-01-21 eng This collection comes from the second phase of a three-phase study of oil lease tracts in southern California. Phase I, also held by this museum, was the baseline study. Phase II was a monitoring study and resulted in the production of the 14 volume “Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and western Santa Barbara Channel” published by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Our Phase II holdings consist of the bulk collections, specimens identified to the Lowest Possible Taxonomic Level (LPIL) which were separated into vials by taxon and station. Initial taxonomy was done by regional experts and verified by additional experts for each group including NHMLAC personnel. Two sets of voucher specimens were produced. The primary set was given to the Smithsonian Institution (USNM) and the secondary to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH). More than 30% of the taxa were either undescribed or new to the region. Types of the new species were distributed between the USNM, SBMNH, and this museum. Our holdings of Phase I & II specimens represent an excellent snap-shot in time of rocky and soft bottom fauna of local oil production areas, as well as the best possible regional taxonomy. Samplingevent GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 This material was collected off California, Western Santa Barbara Channel and Santa Maria Basin, from a grid of 98 stations between Point Estero and Gaviota from 1986 to 1988. Depths ranged from 50 to 930 m. One to 4 box cores were taken in soft sediments at each station. Latitude and longitude data are available for each station. See attached map. -121.375817 -120.016025 35.847483 34.070267 1983-11-01 1984-07-30 886 benthic soft-bottom taxa representing 15 phyla were collected during MMS-CAMP. The number was expected to change as revisions were made during Phase III. Most of these are now at the Museum, minus those species represented by single specimens which were taken for the voucher collections. Polychaetes and crustaceans (mostly peracarids) were the most abundant, followed by molluscs and other phyla. family Philomedidae family Trichobranchidae phylum Arthropoda family Inachidae family Pinnotheridae family Lampropidae order Amphipoda class Ostracoda family Serpulidae order Decapoda family Janiridae family Hesionidae order Spionida family Synopiidae family Travisiidae order Harpacticoida order Amphinomida family Sternaspidae family Leuconidae class Clitellata family Cossuridae order Myodocopida family Eunicidae family Sabellidae family Oweniidae family Urothoidae family Spirorbidae phylum Annelida class Polychaeta family Cryptoniscidae family Fabriciidae order Scalpellomorpha family Amphinomidae order Podocopida family Desmosomatidae family Stenothoidae family Onuphidae family Chaetopteridae family Phoxocephalidae family Opisidae family Sphaerodoridae family Spionidae family Apistobranchidae family Liljeborgiidae family Gnathiidae order Sabellida family Aphroditidae family Eusiridae family Scalpellidae family Cirratulidae family Orbiniidae family Rutidermatidae family Maeridae family Corophiidae family Glyceridae family Macrocyprididae family Photidae family Cirolanidae family Paraonidae family Majidae family Nephtyidae family Nannastacidae family Lysianassidae family Goniadidae family Typhloscolecidae family Magelonidae order Cumacea family Pilargidae family Stegocephalidae family Tryphosidae family Pectinariidae family Capitellidae family Cryptocopidae family Maldanidae family Ampeliscidae family Leptognathiidae family Hyalidae family Sigalionidae family Sabellariidae family Scalibregmatidae family Munnidae family Melinnidae class Thecostraca kingdom Animalia family Ampharetidae order Phyllodocida order Balanomorpha family Balanidae family Euphrosinidae order Tanaidacea family Joeropsididae order Eunicida family Arabellidae family Aegidae family Munnopsidae family Oedicerotidae family Poecilochaetidae family Oenonidae family Polynoidae family Opheliidae family Pardaliscidae family Acrocirridae family Cylindroleberididae family Nereidae family Phyllodocidae order Myzostomida class Copepoda family Caprellidae family Lumbrineridae family Syllidae family Myzostomatidae family Terebellidae order Terebellida family Paramunnidae family Dorvilleidae family Leptocheliidae order Cyclopoida class Malacostraca family Nereididae order Isopoda family Flabelligeridae family Diastylidae This project is more commonly referred to by the acronym MMS-CAMP (MMS Contract No. 14-12-0001-30262). This program was designed to monitor potential environmental changes at a series of regional stations and at two arrays of site-specific stations near oil production platforms in the Western Santa Barbara Channel and Santa Maria Basin region of the California OCS. Platform Hidalgo (Lease P-0450) off Point Arguello was selected for hard-bottom, site-specific monitoring, and the site of the proposed (but never built) Platform Julius (Lease P-0409) off Point Sal was selected for soft-bottom, site-specific monitoring. Specific objectives of the program were: (1) to detect and measure potential long-term (or short-term) changes in the marine environment adjacent to oil and gas platforms, and (2) to determine whether changes observed in the marine environment during the monitoring period are caused by drilling-related activities or are a product of natural processes. As a federally-funded project, the organisms resulting from these studies were destined to go to the National Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Leslie Harris (Polychaete Collections Manager) was involved in all three phases of the project prior to her coming to the Museum. While employed by the Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF-USC) she persuaded Dr. Meredith Jones, head of the MMS collection unit at the Smithsonian, that the bulk-collection specimens should be left on the west coast for the benefit of local taxonomists and more specifically, donated to the AHF-USC (polychaetes) and NHMLAC (all non-polychaetes). In 1988 the polychaetes were given to the NHMLAC as part of the larger AHF-USC Polychaete Collection donation. asNeeded Regina Wetzer Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center

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