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CCIIAACC NNeewwsslleetttteerr Issue 1, January 2010 EEddiittoorriiaall unintentionally led to decreased the newsletter can evolve, and I communication. As the current welcome feedback and Louise Allcock 'guardian' of the informal suggestions for the next issue he Cephalopod International discussion list (fastmoll@ (Summer 2010). I would like to TAdvisory Council (CIAC) is jiscmail.ac.uk), it falls to me to thank all of you who have the society of the cephalopod kickstart the newsletter. I joined contributed articles and international scientific the cephalopod community in '93 information for your help in community and the newsletter - just too late to ever receive one producing this first issue. was initiated to facilitate of the original newsletters. Particular thanks to Vlad communication within the Perhaps this is a good thing - Laptikhovsky who provided an community. Between 1985 and since I am unhindered by extensive selection of photos 1993, the newsletter was preconceptions - but it may also from Vigo (see page 11) and a produced regularly, but a move mean that this first issue does not photo credit to Steve Lodefink away from hard copy and then to completely fulfill the ambitions whose picture of octopus suckers an informal discussion list has of our CIAC founders. However, adorns the newsletter margin! FFrroomm tthhee CCIIAACC PPrreessiiddeenntt Graham Pierce elcome to the first CIAC become a membership-based society could take many forms Wnewsletter in, well, a very society. As those of you at the but I think the key point, which long time. I hope you will find last conference will know, the must precede anything else, is the time to read it, and that you Council will vote at its next that a membership is defined and find it interesting and/or useful! meeting on a proposal for such a that it is able to elect members of A regular newsletter was one of change. A membership-based Council. the things the founders of CIAC is certainly not the CIAC decided that they only grouping of cephalopod should do and I think it is researchers in the world, as is pertinent to ask what else evidenced by the fact that there CIAC is/should be doing. are two upcoming cephalopod According to our bye-laws, conferences this year, the first “the aims of CIAC are to (the International Cephalopod stimulate, accelerate and Fishery Symposium) in May in influence the direction of Zhousnan, China, and the cephalopod research, to second (International Symposium provide help and advice on on Cephalopods Present and aspects of cephalopod Past") in August-September in biology, including those Dijon, France. It would be nice relevant to the management of to think that CIAC could the increasingly important ultimately grow to represent all cephalopod fisheries and to branches of cephalopod spread information on past research. and current research”. Please take the time to send I think one change that will in your views on the proposed enable CIAC to do these change and about what you things and, above all, to Graham Pierce (right) dissects an think CIAC could/should do. represent the views of the Ommastrephes bartrami specimen Best wishes for 2010. “cephalopod community” is to with Angel Guerra Graham Pierce NNeewwss && PPrroojjeeccttss CCeepphhaallooppooddss oonn tthhee mmoovvee iinn TTaassssiiee!! Greta Pecl he east coast of Tasmania is a divers, commercial fishers and the next year. Tclimate change ‘hotspot’ with scientists, to log species that In Tasmania we also have some recent increases in ocean are uncommon in waters preliminary evidence to suggest temperatures 3.8 times the global demonstrating, in time, how potential increases in abundance in average. species distributions may another Tasmanian octopus species, The be changing. One of the Octopus maorum, that might be underlying species being ‘tracked’ related to climate change (see ocean is Octopus tetricus http://www.climatechange.gov.au/p warming in this (the gloomy octopus) ublications/coastline/east-coast- area is further which is common rock-lobster.aspx. This could also intensified by the in mainland be a function of increased activity presence of the East Australia, and as a function of temperature Australian Current is now being increases but it is a trend we are (EAC), which is observed in northern exploring further as the maori extending further south Tasmanian waters octopus is a major predator of into Tasmanian waters for the first Tasmania's second most important bringing with it warmer time. fishery species, the southern rock northern sub-tropical waters. This If you’re interested lobster. has resulted in several dozen range in finding out extensions as species shift pole- what’s on the ward to avoid the warming waters move in the of their usual habitats. However, fastest warming capturing species range shifts can region in the be difficult due to a scarcity of southern marine monitoring programs and hemisphere, the often short time frames of such sign up at studies. In response, Tasmania has www.redmap.org.au launched a website-based project for our quarterly called Redmap (Range Extension newsletter. More Database and Mapping project) that cephalopods will invites the 120,000 recreational be added to the fishers in Tassie, along with scuba Redmap species list over EEtthhoollooggiiccaall CCoonnffeerreennccee individuals presenting on cephalopod teuthologist. Edited by G. Bello, S.v. behaviour, including A. Arnett, J. Boletzky, and R. La Perna, this Jennifer Mather Boal, L. Cartron, S. Chikatosi, M. special issue is entitled Contributions ephalopods were featured at Guibe, J. Holm, Y. Iwata, C. Jozet- to Mediterranean teuthology - In Cthe 31st International Alves, S. Kobayashi, C. Talbot and memory of Vinicio Biagi. Ethological Conference, held in S. Zylinski. Rennes, France in August of 2009. Bello & La Perna - Foreword. There were two symposia on SSppeecciiaall IIssssuuee Bello & Boletzky - In honour of Vinicio Cephalopod Behaviour, organized Biagi (1936-2004). Giambattista Bello Capua - In memoriam. Vinicio Biagi by Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq, (1936-2004). Ludovic Dickel, Yuzuru Ikeda and he December 2009 supplement Villari & Ammendolia - On a beached Nadav Shashar. Presenters were Tto the Bollettino Malacologico, specimen of Octopoteuthis sicula Roger Hanlon, Benny Hochner, the official journal of the Società (Cephalopoda: Octopoteuthidae) in the David Edelman, Jennifer Mather, Italiana di Malacologia (Italian Strait of Messina. Jean Boal, Nadav Shashar , Sarah Malacological Society), is dedicated Orsi Relini - Notes about colour displays Zylinski and Yuzuru Ikeda. In to the late Vinicio Biagi, an active observed in female specimens of addition there were several member of the Society and amateur Tremoctopus (Cephalopoda: Octopoda) 2 and their taxonomic value. Sartor & Belcari - Opisthoteuthis calypso CCeepphhaallooppoodd PPrroojjeecctt -- BBrraazziill (Cephalopoda: Octopoda) collected Tatiana Leite on bathyal bottoms of the northern the description of a new octopus Tyrrhenian Sea (western Mediterranean). ur project focuses on the Capua et al. - On a large specimen of Osystematics, taxonomy, ecology species – Octopus insularis Leite & Histioteuthis bonnellii (Cephalopoda: and behaviour of cephalopods in Haimovici, 2008 Histioteuthidae) caught in the northern the Northeast of Brazil, including Octopus insularis was described Tyrrhenian Sea, western Mediterranean. the oceanic islands of the South from material collected in shallow Orsi Relini et al. - First record of an egg Atlantic and North. equatorial waters around the mass of Loligo forbesi (Cephalopoda: Because it is developing studies oceanic islands of Fernando de Loliginidae) in the Ligurian Sea, in conservation areas and areas of Noronha Archipelago, Rocas Atoll, with notes about egg laying patterns economic and scientific interest, the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago, in southern populations. project has the support of the and the mainland of northeastern Biagi & Bello - Occurrence of an egg Brazil (Leite et al., 2008). This mass of Thysanoteuthis rhombus Brazilian Institute of Environment (Cephalopoda: Teuthida) in the Strait Natural Resources (IBAMA), of Messina (Italy), locus typicus of ICMBio, the Interministerial the species. Commission for Sea Boletzky - Records of cephalopod eggs Resources (CIRM - Navy and embryos: what do we need? Brazil), Administration of Sanchez - One century of teuthological Fernando de Noronha, records from the Catalan Sea. Federal University of Rio Salman - Cephalopod research in the Grande do Norte (UFRN) eastern Mediterranean (East of and Federal University of 23°E): a review. Ciavaglia & Manfredi - Distribution and Rio Grande (FURG), some biological aspects of cephalopods which facilitates access in the North and Central Adriatic. and progress of research in Balducci & Piccinetti - Distribution of ocean areas. juvenile cephalopods collected Cephalopods researchers from species is commercially important during a survey on tuna larvae in the other Brazilian universities and and accounts for a large percentage Mediterranean Sea (1994). from abroad, such as Dr. Jennifer of octopus fisheries from Para (01o Voliani et al. - An updated review of Mather, University of Lethbridge, 28´N, 48o 29´W) to Bahia States the occurrence of Bathypolypus Canada, and Dr. Roland Anderson, (12o 56´N, 38o 31´W) in Brazil. sponsalis (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) USA are also contributing to the Octopus insularis differs both in the Italian seas and notes on its morphologically and genetically distribution
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