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Excerpt from Systematics and Zoogeography of the Worldwide Bathypelagic Squid Bathyteuthis: Cephalopoda, Oegopsida Some other groups of the Antarctic marine fauna, however, have been studied more thoroughly, primarily because of the extensive pro gram carried on by the Discomery office. More than 30 volumes of Discovery Reports have been prepared on the biology of Southern Ocean organisms. The systematics and distribution of planktonic and nektonic groups have been presented by Mackintosh (1934, Hardy and Gunther Fraser Baker Tebble Marr and many others. In 1962 the Office of Antarctic Programs of the National Science Foundation initiated its program in oceanography by the deployment of the usns Eltanin to the Southern Ocean. A biological collecting program of broad scope provided the opportunity to conduct detailed studies on the marine fauna of Antarctica. A grant to study the sys tematics and distribution of Antarctic cephalopods was awarded to G. L. Voss of the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami. As the large collections were sorted and identified, it became increas ingly clear that the cephalopod fauna of Antarctic waters was con siderably more extensive and more complex than had been indicated by all previous surveys. Preliminary sorting and identification of the collections by the writer in the winter of 1965 revealed that approxi mately 30 species of the suborder Oegopsida occur in the Southern Ocean. Some of these species are relatively well known; some represent long extensions in range; several are undescribed. Nearly the same situation holds for the dozen or so nominal species of benthic octopods that are being studied by G. L. Voss. The finned octopods, a perpetual problem group, are rep-resented by about a half - dozen species. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The work presented here is divided into two major parts. The part on systematics presents a review of literature on Bathyteuthis, detailed descriptions of B. abyssicola and two newly named species, determination of the familial relationships of the Bathyteuthidae, an analysis of Ctenopteryx and Bathyteuthis to determine the validity of their inclusion in the same family. The second part is a study of the distribution of Bathyteuthis. The bathymetric and geographic ranges of the species are established, and the physicochemical and biological factors that govern these distributions are analyzed.
This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information. Presenting a comprehensive summary of knowledge of Gulf biota through 2004, the book includes seventy-seven chapters, which list more than fifteen thousand species in thirty-eight phyla or divisions and were written by 138 authors from seventy-one institutions in fourteen countries.This first volume of Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, a multivolumed set edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle, provides information on each species' habitat, biology, and geographic range, along with full references and a narrative introduction to the group, which opens each chapter.