Regina Wetzer Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center

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+1-213-763-3217 rwetzer@nhm.org https://nhm.org/person/wetzer-regina 0000-0003-2674-5150 Jenessa Wall Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County DigIn Specialist and Collections Manager

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

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+1-213-763-3217 rwetzer@nhm.org https://nhm.org/person/wetzer-regina 0000-0003-2674-5150 Jenessa Wall Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County DigIn Specialist and Collections Manager

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jwall@nhm.org 0009-0007-6136-6734 2026-07-14 eng This survey is unusually comprehensive due to the wide geographic area, depth range, variety of habitats and intensive collecting throughout Southern California. Different teams sampled intertidal areas (rocky, sandy, and slough), subtidal (soft sediment and rock substrate), kelp beds, and mussel communities for biotic, chemical, and geologic data. Subtidal areas included mainland shelf and slope, nearshore basins, island shelves, intermediate basins and slopes, outer banks, and deep outer basins and slopes. Large numbers of specimens were collected, providing excellent documentation of community composition, life history, interspecific and intraspecific variability over space and time. In addition, many undescribed species were found during the study. Occurrence 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 To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction. Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html CC0-1.0 Point Conception to San Diego -120.466667 -117.158333 34.433333 32.466667 1977-02-03 1977-09-24 class Monothalamea class Hydrozoa phylum Arthropoda order Amphipoda order Calanoida class Ostracoda order Decapoda kingdom Chromista order Spionida order Amphinomida class Clitellata order Myodocopida phylum Annelida class Polychaeta order Podocopida order Cheilostomatida phylum Chordata class Bivalvia phylum Hemichordata order Halocyprida order Haplosclerida class Pycnogonida order Anthoathecata order Sabellida order Euphausiacea order Sipuncula phylum Mollusca class Demospongiae order Cumacea order Mysida phylum Porifera class Enteropneusta kingdom Animalia order Phyllodocida order Rhabdocoela order Siphonostomatoida order Tanaidacea order Poecilosclerida phylum Nematoda order Eunicida class Gymnolaemata phylum Platyhelminthes order Myzostomida class Copepoda order Leptostraca order Terebellida phylum Phoronida phylum Foraminifera class Hexactinellida order Astrorhizida class Malacostraca order Isopoda phylum Bryozoa phylum Cnidaria asNeeded Regina Wetzer Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center

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+1-213-763-3217 rwetzer@nhm.org https://nhm.org/person/wetzer-regina 0000-0003-2674-5150 Regina Wetzer 0000-0003-2674-5150 principalInvestigator 2026-06-08T17:06:40.434+00:00 dataset https://ipt.vertnet.org/logo.do?r=blm_benchmark