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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.
Squid, cuttlefish and octopuses, which form the marine mollusc group the cephalopods, are of great and increasing interest to marine biologists, physiologists, ecologists, environmental biologists and fisheries scientists. Cephalopods: ecology and fisheries is a thorough review of this most important animal group. The first introductory section of the book provides coverage of cephalopod form and function, origin and evolution, Nautilus, and biodiversity and zoogeography. The following section covers life cycles, growth, physiological ecology, reproductive strategies and early life histories. There follows a section on ecology, which provides details of slope and shelf species, oceanic and deep sea species, population ecology, trophic ecology and cephalopods as prey. The final section of the book deals with fisheries and ecological interactions, with chapters on fishing methods and scientific sampling, fisheries resources, fisheries oceanography and assessment and management methods. This scientifically comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book is essential reading for marine biologists, zoologists, ecologists and fisheries managers. All libraries in universities and research establishments where biological sciences and fisheries are studied and taught should have multiple copies of this landmark publication on their shelves.
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.