Shell fragments are important components of many Recent and fossil marine benthic
ecosystems and can provide crucial information on past and present environmental …

Abstract “Deep-sea” cephalopods are here defined as cephalopods that spend a significant
part of their life cycles outside the euphotic zone. In this chapter, the state of knowledge in …

This is the second volume of the entirely rewritten, revised and updated version of the
original FAO Catalogue of Cephalopods of the World (1984). The present Volume is a …

Octopuses are generally characterised by rapid non-asymptotic growth, with high individual
variability. However, in situ octopus growth is not well understood. The lack of an ageing …

Dietary descriptions based on stomach content are pervasive regardless of the biases
concerning its methodology, statistics and descriptors. We here review different biases on …

There is increasing fishing pressure on the continental margins of the oceans, and this
raises concerns about the vulnerability of the ecosystems thriving there. The current …

Cephalopod beaks are essential for prey acquisition and fragmentation during feeding.
Thus, it is expected that ecological pressures affect cephalopod beak shape. From a …

Here we analyze existing quantitative data available for cephalopod brains based on
classical contributions by JZ Young and colleagues, to cite some. We relate the relative …

Predation is a dominant structuring force in ecological communities. In aquatic
environments, predation on bivalves has long been an important focal interaction for …

This paper reports on the population dynamics of Dosidicus gigas from the Gulf of California
over the period of the 1995–1996 to 2001–2002 fishing seasons. Data were collected on …