Cephalopods are a relatively small class of molluscs (~ 800 species), but they support some
large industrial scale fisheries and numerous small-scale, local, artisanal fisheries. For …

This is the first 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 multiauthored …

Cephalopods play a signicant role in coastal and oceanic ecosystems, both as consumers of
invertebrates and small sh and as the prey of some sh, seabirds and marine mammals and …

Octopuses of the family Octopodidae adopt two major life-history strategies. The rst is the
production of relatively few, large eggs resulting in well-developed hatchlings that resemble …

Reproductive and energy allocation analyses were performed on 1418 common octopus
(Octopus vulgaris) from the Galician creel fishery (NE Atlantic) between May 2000 and …

Cephalopod movement occurs during all phases of the life history, with the abundance and
location of cephalopod populations strongly influenced by the prevalence and scale of their …

The trophic ecology of Octopus vulgaris paralarvae collected in 2008 off the Ría de Vigo,
NW Spain (42° 12.80′ N–9° 00.00′ W), was approached by both morphological and …

The planktonic paralarval stage of cephalopods (octopus, squids and cuttlefishes) is an
important dispersal phase, particularly of benthic species, that lasts from days to months …

The high mortality of cephalopod early stages is the main bottleneck to grow them from
paralarvae to adults in culture conditions, probably because the inadequacy of the diet that …

This paper investigates the possible underlying causes of the wide interannual fluctuations
in catch of the common octopus Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 in one of the main small …