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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 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 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 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 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, , 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 in the Mediterranean. project. Deickert - Reproductive mode in the The main objectives are to: from Octopus vulgaris in the Sepietta (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae). 1. Identify the species of Mediterranean, Venezuela and Laptikhovsky et al. - A habitat-dependence cephalopods that occur in coastal Southern Brazil. It has relatively in reproductive strategies of cephalopods and oceanic islands in Northeast short and stout arms, rugose reddish and pelagophile fish in the Brazil; brown skin in preserved specimens, Mediterranean Sea. 2. Make a database on species 8 to 11 gill lamellae on the outer Cuccu et al. - On the abundance and identification; demibranchs, small ligula, spatial distribution of Illex coindetii 3. Get information about the characteristic symmetrical radula, (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) and ecology, biology and behaviour of spermatophore and beak, small Eledone moschata (Cephalopoda: eggs and high fecundity (213000 Octopodidae) in species of cephalopods the Sardinian in the region; oocytes under 1.5 mm diameter) Seas... 4. Assess the impact of (see more in Leite et al., 2008, Jereb & Agnesi - fishing on populations, Journal of Molluscan Studies; and Current state of outline the state of Leite & Mather, 2008, American knowledge on conservation and develop Malacological Bulletin). exploited cephalopods sustainable management For more information contact in Italian waters. plans; Dra. Tatiana Leite, Post-doc - opies may be 5. Trace the local Oceanography Dept. – UFRN Cordered for €30 populations, aspects of Telefone: +55 (84) 3342-4963, inc. postage from the biology and ecology, email: [email protected] or Dr. Paolo Crovato, thus underscoring the see the project website at Technical Editor, importance of conservation. www.projeto-cephalopoda.webnode email: paolo.crovato Results so far include .com. @fastwebnet.it. 3 CCeepphhaallooppoodd CCooookkbbooookk && CIAC members have contributed This book is to be published by some fabulous recipes since CIAC ootthheerr pprroojjeeccttss CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne and Hobart 2006. I have not yet been is due for completion in January able to secure a publisher and am Mandy Reid 2013. It aims to bring together contemplating a web publication. am a cephalopod taxonomist everything known, if possible, All I need is time. Ibased in Wollongong, Australia. about species occurring in I am a bit frustrated in that I am I am currently primarily working Australian waters. I am currently working full time in a totally on: sourcing images for the book, so if unrelated area at Wollongong anyone has images they are able to University, so I am working on the contribute, I would be grateful if above projects in my 'spare' time, they could contact me on which makes my progress very There are many specimens [email protected]. slow. belonging to these three families in Rossia pacifica I would like to wish everyone a Australian museum collections that With collaborators Eric Hochberg happy New Year and all the best for are yet to be described. This work and Luke Pedersen we are trying to 2010. is being funded by ABRS (the make sense of the R. pacifica Cheers, Mandy Australian Biological Resources species complex. Amanda (Mandy) Reid (Dr), 6 Study). n hold, but certainly not Sturt Place, Bulli NSW 2156, Oforgotten, is the publication of Australia. Ph: +61 2 4285 2613. a cephalopod cookbook. Many Email: [email protected] EEvvoolluuttiioonn ooff OOmmmmaassttrreepphhiiddaaee aanndd OOnnyycchhootteeuutthhiiddaaee Vlad Laptikhovsky and Jan Strugnell he modern oceanic nekton is a In contrast to this, two other epipelagic realm of the low Tyoung ecological group with families manage to occupy the productive centres of all oceans. its cephalopod fraction formed only epipelagic trophic waters of all Though the family itself likely has during the Neogene. Its evolution oceans. General patterns of a Mesozoic origin, its oceanisation proceeded from original coastal evolution of Ommastrephidae are probably began in the Oligocene – more or less clear Miocene (40-20 mya), and species (Nigmatullin, 1979, 2007). ranges of extant species were The most primitive genus probably shaped as late as the Plio- Illex (no seminal receptacles, Pleistocene (Nigmatullin, 2007). no photophores, aberrant Evolution of Onychoteuthidae is spermatozoa) occurs in neritic still a riddle. It is supposed that the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, family has tropical origins (Nesis, whereas more advanced 2000) with the genus Onykia Todarodinae and Todar- having the most ancestral opsinae (seminal receptacles, characters. Thus the family evolved no photophores, normal in two directions: via habitats to the offshore pelagic spermatozoa) occupy nerito- “Moroteuthis” to Kondakovia realm of the open ocean beyond oceanic waters of all oceans. Next ('ammoniacal', neutrally buoyant continental slopes (Nesis, 1978). The in the progressive ommastrephid branch), and through Ancystroteuthis most abundant nektonic oceanic nektonisation are the nerito-oceanic and Notonykia to Onychoteuthis families in this new to oceanic Ornithoteuthinae and ('muscular' negatively buoyant environment are Gonatidae, Omma- Ommastrephinae (with seminal branch). The last revision of the strephidae and Onychoteuthidae. receptacles and Gonatidae likely appeared in the photophores). north Pacific and later penetrated Then the most into North Atlantic and subpolar advanced genera waters of the Southern hemisphere morphologically where they are very abundant are Hyaloteuthis though not diverse (Lindgren et al., and Eucleoteuthis 2005). However, the family never (complex system invaded pelagic waters between the of photophores), tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. which inhabit the

4 family system by Kat Bolstad Onychoteuthidae and Gonatidae divergence times. (2008) assumes a different probably was much weaker, To complete this molecular scenario. because representatives of the latter phylogenetic study we are trying to Our working hypothesis is as family in shared habitats were collect as many ommastrephid and follows. The most primitive genus generally much smaller, and the onychoteuthid species as possible of the family is Antarctic adult part of the life cycle of most and would be extremely grateful for Kondakovia, and the entire family species happens in deep seas. any tissue samples from the evolution happened in the direction The idea of the proposed project cephalopod community. We of nektonisation and mastering life is to follow a simultaneous require only a tiny tissue sample (a in warm-water environments. The speciation and diversification of few cms squared) preserved in Onychoteuthidae appeared in the Ommastrephidae (probable starting ethanol (70-95%), ideally with Southern Hemisphere more or less point – inshore tropical Atlantic) known co-ordinates. If you can simultaneously with notothenioid and Onychoteuthidae (probable have any tissue samples that you fishes, and the species starting point – Antarctic waters) could spare for this project please e- diversification into tropical regions using a multigene approach to mail us - [email protected], and the northern hemisphere reconstruct a molecular phylogeny [email protected] occurred about the same time as and to estimate interspecific adaptive radiation of nototheniod fish (Eastman, 2000) as well as both nektonisation and respective FFoorrtthhccoommiinngg BBooookk speciation of ommastrephids, - James B. Wood between 15 and 5 mya. Notothenioid fish never managed to history of this smart denizen of the evolve into a “proper” holopelagic sea. form inhabiting the epipelagic realm except for the Antarctic Jennifer A. Mather is a leading species Pleurogramma antarcticum. researcher on , Possibly this is because an concentrating on their behaviour intensive fat accumulation is and personalities. A professor of required to maintain neutral psychology at the University of buoyancy in the absence of a swim The octopus has terrified, Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, she bladder – a too expensive strategy mystified, and fascinated the world teaches a variety of courses outside of cold waters. from ancient times. In this including studies of aging and In contrast, Onychoteuthidae revealing, closeup account of the perception. evolved into active nektonic stranger-than-fiction life cycle, Roland C. Anderson, a longtime predators, as did ommastrephid ingenious anatomy, remarkable biologist at the Seattle Aquarium, i.e. becoming faster personalities, and uncanny has observed octopuses in captivity swimmers with more muscular intelligence of the eight-armed and the wild for more than 30 , penetrating into the oceanic mollusk-without-a-shell, three avid years. He is particularly interested tropical epipelagic realm beyond field researchers tell a tale that will in the natural history, behaviour, continental shelves and slopes, and forever change the way you look at and aquarium husbandry of marine developing more complicated a wondrous creature of the deep. invertebrates. behaviour (evolving photophores). From the molluscan ancestry of James B. Wood is the director of In their run to the surface of today's octopus to its ingenious education at the Aquarium of the tropical seas, Onychoteuthidae anatomy, amazing mating and Pacific in Long Beach, California. intensively interacted with predatory behaviors, and other- An accomplished underwater Ommastrephidae competing for the worldly relatives, the authors take photographer, he is especially same habitats. During this readers through the astounding life interested in cephalopod behaviour, competitive race both families cycle, uncovering the details of husbandry, and physiology. occupied tropical, subtropical, and distinctive octopus personalities. For additional information about temperate offshore waters of all With personal narratives, the book, photo requests, or author oceans, including Subantarctica and underwater research, stunning interviews, please contact Melanie Antarctica, but never managed to closeup photography, and Platosh at mplatosh@timberpress settle in the Arctic ocean and its thoughtful guidance for keeping .com. For sales inquiries, please surroundings. octopuses in captivity, Octopus is contact [email protected]. The competition between the first comprehensive natural www.timberpress.com

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uring November, 2009, the MAR-ECO project, histioteuthids and onychoteuthids following. Dwhich has been researching biodiversity in the Pyroteuthids and ommastrephids were encountered at North Atlantic for the past ten years, expanded into the most stations, and pelagic gelatinous octopuses were South Atlantic. The Russian research vessel Akademik also relatively common. Several rarely encountered Ioffe travelled along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from taxa were also collected, including Neoteuthis sp., 27°30¢N to 35°30¢S, carrying Russian and South Ctenopteryx sicula and a small but impressive American benthos, fish and plankton specialists, plus Lepidoteuthis grimaldii (ML ~25mm). teuthologists Angel Perez (UNIVALI, Brazil) and Kat Tissue samples were collected from a number of

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Liocranchia species and are being analysed; sequences will be submitted to GenBank in due course. In-depth reports on faunal composition and descriptions of the material are also underway. The specimens will be divided between institutions in South America and the South African Museum. For further details, and stories of adventure on the Bolstad (AUT, New Zealand). Among the 74 samples high seas, the events of the cruise were journalled collected, at least 360 taxa were represented, including online and are still available through the MAR-ECO 44 cephalopod species from 22 families in four orders. website (http://www.mar-eco.no/Shiptoshore/akademik Cranchiids were the most diverse family, comprising _ioffe_2009) in English, and in Portuguese through the 25% of the total species observed, with enoploteuthids, UNIVALI website (http://www.univali.br/mar-eco ).

ecological relationships, and, not the curatorial job is essentially to EE OO LL least, its perceived practical check what has been entered / http://www.eol.org importance for humanity." submitted by others. There are Pages will be created in EOL inevitably some teething t CIAC 2009, Roger Hanlon through 'LifeDesk', a specially problems, but you are certain to Amade a presentation on created software package. The hear more on this from Mike and cephalopod participation in the flow of information into EOL Roger in the future. Encyclopedia of Life project. As depends upon Administrators, For those of you who missed most of you will know, EOL is the individual scientists and expert Roger's presentation at Vigo, you brainchild of E.O. Wilson, who curators. However, EOL will also can download the pdf from the envisaged a website that, for every be 'scraping' information from Tree CIAC webpages, or you can species on earth, would contain "a of Life so there should be no need contact Roger on summary of everything known to duplicate information therein. [email protected]. In his about the species’ genome, At the moment, Mike Vecchione presentation, Roger stressed that proteome, geographic distribution, has agreed to act as Expert Curator he was particularly keen to phylogenetic position, habitat, for cephalopods. He reports that involve young researchers. 6 NNeeww FFaacceess DDaanniieell OOeesstteerrwwiinndd PhD student at Zoological Department University of Kiel and the IFM-GEOMAR Kiel, Germany Email: [email protected]

The major focus of my studies is to elucidate whether cephalopod abundance and stock size of the most important species, such as Loligo forbesii, are increasing or if the higher amounts of cephalopod landings are just a consequence of an increasing catch effort? There are strong indications that cephalopod numbers in the central North Alloteuthis Sea, especially in the German Bight, have increased and that this is connected with global warming. Besides climate change also higher nutrient impact, pollution and commercial fisheries influence the North Sea ecosystem and make the whole system very complex. In order to see whether the cephalopod stocks increase I am analyzing various data sets of cephalopod by-catch stomach contents data of a number of ICES coordinated International Bottom Trawl Surveys. Furthermore, I am analyzing thousands of cephalopod stomach contents to document to what extend cephalopods actually prey on fish. Stable isotope measurements will help me estimate the y PhD project is funded by trophic position of cephalopod species in Mthe Deutsche Bundesstiftung the North Sea food web. ommastrephids Umwelt (DBU), one of Europe’s largest foundations which supports Andrea Frommel innovative and exemplary Andrea Frommel environmental projects. PhD student at the IFM-GEOMAR Kiel, Germany With worldwide cephalopod Email: [email protected] landings increasing during the last n my thesis I am testing the effect fifty-six years from 600.000 tons in Iof ocean acidification on the 1953 to about 4,200,000 tons in survival, growth, development and 2008 there are also indications that fitness of cephalopod embryos and cephalopod abundance is rising in paralarvae. CO2 levels in the oceans the North East Atlantic. For the are expected to rise North Sea it has been shown that dramatically over the commercially important fish stocks next century due to have been depleted, but plankton anthropogenic emissions diversity and stock sizes of fish and into the atmosphere invertebrate species that prefer by burning fossil fuels warmer water masses increased. and a shift in land-use The potential consequences of (deforestation, etc.). increasing cephalopod stocks on the Carbonate chemistry recruitment of traditional fish will change as a result species has become an important of increasing CO2 and issue. decreasing pH in

7 them for any deformations caused by the CO2. In further studies, I hope to do some experiments with Sepia officinalis and rear them up to the juvenile stage

under different CO2 scenarios. The images show the early life stages of my target species, Loligo vulgaris. My work is connected to the German project BIOACID (“Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification”) which is co-ordinated at IFM- GEOMAR in Kiel and funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (http://bioacid.ifm- geomar.de) and to the EU FP7 Integrated Project EPOCA (“European Project on OCean Acidification”) (http://www. epoca-project.eu). The overall goal of these projects is to advance our understanding of the seawater leading to an under-saturation of calcium biological, ecological, biogeochemical, and societal carbonate. This in turn will affect marine organisms that implications of ocean acidification. build calcified structures. Along with reduced cal- cification rates found for molluscs, cnidarians and echinoderms, elevated CO2 concentrations can disturb the acid-base regulation, blood circulation and respiration, as well as the nervous system of marine organisms, leading to long term effects such as reduced growth rates and reproduction. So far I have performed experiments on Loligo vulgaris, incubating newly laid wild eggs at different

CO2 concentrations in the laboratory until hatch, recording the survival and behaviour. Morphometric measurements of mantle length, yolk sac size, etc. are taken through-out the experi-ment. After hatch, I measure bio-chemical com-ponents such as protein and lipid content, as well as RNA / DNA ratios as a measure of fitness and growth potential. I am also looking at the shape and surface structure of the statoliths, examining RRoommmmeell HH MMaanneejjaa PhD student at the IFM-GEOMAR Kiel, Germany Email: [email protected]

am an Early Stage Researcher of carbonate, which is susceptible to Ithe EU FP7 Marie Curie Initial dissolution under acidic Training Network project CALMARO (Calcification By Marine Organisms; see http://www.calmaro.eu) tasked with investigating the environmental and physiological controls of calcification of the otolith, statolith and cuttlebone in fish and cephalopods, respectively. I am particularly interested in the effects of ocean acidification and temperature on the calcification mechanism and how this affects the behavioural and life strategies of the organisms. The three structures SEM image of Sepia officinalis are composed of aragonitic calcium statolith

8 conditions. However, other internal relationship between calcification my research activities includes the physiological factors also control and external environmental following analyses: seawater the calcification process such as the conditions may not be carbonate chemistry, seawater concentration of organic and straightforward. Since these major and trace elements, statolith inorganic components of the aragonitic structures mainly microstructure and microchemistry, endolymph. Thus, the cause-effect function in detecting movement and pH microsensor measurement of regulating balance and buoyancy, the statocyst endolymph, and changes in their morphology and feeding behaviour observations. structural integrity might affect feeding behaviour such as capture of prey, consequently affecting survival. The rate of calcification and crystal formation may also enhance or lessen the “vital effects” of uptake of trace and major elements into the aragonitic matrix. Understanding elemental uptake is important since elemental records in the otolith and statolith are useful for ecological studies and might Sepia officinalis embryo. also indirectly or directly influence Incubation of cuttlefish for the calcification process itself. CO2 perturbaton experiments Currently, I am working on the were done from the earliest cuttlefish species, Sepia officinalis embryonic stage possible. and Sepia bandensis. The scope of SSííllvviiaa LLoouurreennççoo PhD student of the Oceanography Centre of the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University Email: e-mail: [email protected] ’m a Portuguese Marine Biologist and over the next four Iyears I’m going to study cephalopod life history strategies, mainly of the common octopus. I will conduct my work at three marine laboratories, the Oceanography Centre of Lisbon University (CO-FCUL), the Portuguese Fisheries Research Institute (IPIMAR) and the Marine investigations Institute of Vigo (IIM). My PhD project is funded by the national Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT). The growing commercial interest in the common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, in Portugal and Spain, reflects the need to assess the fisheries potential of the species to guarantee its sustainable exploitation. Along with its importance as a fisheries resource, the aquaculture potential of the common octopus increases interest in determining the environmental and biological factors which control its life cycle with an aim to optimize its growth. The main objective of this project is to assess which environmental, nutritional and biologic conditions have a major influence on the common octopus life cycle. I intend to study which environmental factors control the reproduction stage, the quality of eggs and paralarvae, and to assess how environmental conditions influence the length of the paralarval phase and the survival of the next generation. Hopefully, this study will help fill some important gaps in the knowledge of survival strategies during the entire life cycle of the common octopus. 9 CCIIAACC''0099 -- VViiggoo congress was closed by the Mayor of Vigo. The publishing process is now in full swing. The manuscripts that in the opinion of the referees meet the required standard, will be published in two mainstream and high standard journals: ICES Journal of Marine Science (Guest editors: Ángel F. Gonzalez, Greta Pecl and Graham J. Pierce) and Fisheries Research (Guest editors: Ángel Guerra, Louise Allcock and Joao Pereira). Other communications will be published in Iberus, scientific journal of the Spanish Malacological Society and Journal he Cephalopod International Galicia (Xunta de Galicia), The of Natural History. TAdvisory Council Symposium International Council for the The Local Organizing Committee (CIAC'09) finished on October Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the wishes to thank all of you that 10th with a splendid banquet in the Zoological Society of London, the joined us in Vigo during the four Parador Conde de Gondomar in North Pacific Atlantic Organization workshops and the symposium Bayona. CIAC event was held in (PICES), the University of Vigo, meetings for your active the Social Centre of Caixanova in the City Council of Vigo and participation and nice collaboration Vigo (Spain). In total, 156 Caixanova. all the time. Thank you very much cephalopod experts, including 26 The symposium attracted a lot of for the large number of messages Spaniards, attended CIAC'09. A media attention which was was received in this sense. first for CIAC, was the high directed by the press office of the We would like to congratulate the number of researchers representing Delegation of the CSIC in Galicia. new President of CIAC, Graham J. Latin America countries including Ana Bellón, person in charge of Pierce and the new members of the Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile and this bureau, has the dossier of press CIAC Executive Committee, and Argentina. Approximately, 33% of coverage. News on this event was we wish them all the best for the the participants were new graduate presented in all local, regional and incoming years, which are expected or postdoctoral students; 6% of the eveno national newspapers, radio to be exciting. attendants received some help from and TV. Our Fishing Industries The CIAC Executive Committee the organizing committee towards newspaper extracted a long article decided that the next symposium travel, subsistence or reduced fees. with some nice photos. Also it will will be held in Brazil. Erica Vidal Besides the excellent inaugural be disseminated in the Newscast of will be the main organizer of this and closing talks given by Sigurd the Malacological Spanish Society. event and we would like to thank von Boletzky and Paul Rodhouse, This news was not limited to the her for the work she made to respectively, there were 99 oral inauguration and closing days, but prepare all issues related to the communications and 91 posters. was communicated throughout the Brazil proposal. We are sure it will The fantastic weather supported the whole week of the symposium. be another great event and we extra-curricular activities such as The photo above shows the would like to give Erica all the the visits to the National Park of the dignitaries seated at the opening support she needs. It would not be Atlantic Islands, Santiago de ceremony: the Conselleira do Mar fair to forget the magnificent effort Compostela and the scuba-diving in de la Xunta of Galicia, the dean of made our Japanese colleagues, the Ría de Vigo. the Faculty of Sciences of the Mar headed by Yasunori Sakurai; we are We are very grateful to the of the University of Vigo, the sure that they will carry on to hold sponsoring organisations of this delegate of ICES in Spain, the then a future CIAC meeting in Japan. event: Spanish National Research president of the CIAC (Sasha Our warmest wishes to all of you Council (CSIC), the Ministry of Arkhipkin, fourth from lef) and and see you in Brazil in 2012! Science and Innovation, The both organizers, Angel Guerra (left) Regional Government of Galicia of and Angel Gonzalez (right). The

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11 CCIIAACC''1122 -- BBrraazziill razil will become the first South American nation of room for entertainment and adventure. Given the Bto host a CIAC symposium, as the country won a country innumerable charms, a CIAC symposium in majority of the votes of the CIAC Executive Council in Brazil will certainly contribute with high standard Vigo. Brazil is also much in evidence in the world as scientific outputs, while offering the attendees a the first South American country to host the Olympic pleasant and friendly environment with memorable Games of 2016. In between, the country will also host moments of leisure, not to mention the experience of the 2014 World Cup. It seems that the time has come Curitiba - wire opera for Brazil, the largest and the only Portuguese speaking country in South America. The main rationale for a CIAC symposium in South America was that the cephalopod researcher community has grown considerably in this continent in last few years. This can be partially explained by the development of cephalopod research in nearly all South American countries, but also by the demand for knowledge of important commercially exploited cephalo-pods (e.g., Dosidicus gigas in Mexico and Peru; Illex argentinus in Brazil and Argentina, and octopus species in Chile). Therefore, there is a clear the music, dance, food and nature. demand for a CIAC Symposium in South America, One of two cities, Florianópolis or Curitiba will host what would also help to potentially increase the the symposium. These cities are located 300 Km apart participation of researchers and students from South and are the State Capitals of Paraná and Santa Catarina American countries. respectively. Flight times from São Paulo-Guarulhos airport, the main international airport in Brazil, to Florianópolis Florianópolis or Curitiba are less than 1h. Florianópolis, is one of the three Brazilian´s state capital islands and comprises a Main Island, a small continental part and small surrounding islands. The city has a population of about 480.000, and around 100 beautiful beaches, many of which are perfect places for a number of water sports, like surfing, kayaking, and scuba diving. The diverse scenery offers a tranquil and peaceful stay, while cultural activities and fine seafood and local gastronomy will certainly satisfy a broad range of tastes. The city's privileged infrastructure for scientific meetings is renowned, and a number of Brazil encompasses all the desirable conditions to important international events had already been held in fulfill this demand. The country has an expressive and Florianópolis major resorts. Curitiba is a modern and growing number of cephalopod researches, whom have cosmopolitan capital city with almost 1.8 million been delivering scientific contributions to the inhabitants. It is considered to be the “ecological mainstream science on a regular basis. Operational capital” of Brazil, having a leading position in urban conditions are attractive to international events, not and ecological solutions. The emphasis in Curitiba is only because of the excellent infrastructure for protecting the environment with dozens of urban parks congresses and meetings, but also because of the lower and gardens. As a result, the city provides one of the costs for accommodations and catering in relation to highest standards for life quality within the country Northern Hemisphere countries. In addition, Brazil is a and is known as a very pleasant place to live. Curitiba tropical country with a multi-ethnic people and is located 934 m above sea level and separated from breathtaking scenery. Some of the world´s most the coast by the 'Serra do Mar' a mountain range exciting destinations lie inside of Brazil’s borders. belonging to one of the most preserved areas of the From white-sand beaches and tropical islands stretched Atlantic Forest. over more than 8000 Km along the Atlantic coast to The organizing committee is already discussing the inland unique biomas, like the Pantanal and the logistics for this conference and will offer more details Amazon and Atlantic forests congregating some of the about the meeting in the next CIAC newsletter. We are greatest biodiversity of the planet, there will be plenty looking forward to seeing you in BRAZIL!

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As all who attended CIAC'03 know, Phuket is a great city for a conference!! There are 13 organised symposia withing the conference, none of which has a cephalopod oriented theme but if your paper does not fit one of the symposia, it can be placed either in the open session or the contributed papers section. When was the last cephalopod themed session at a World Congress of Malacology symposium? Hawaii '95? Answers on a postcard (or by email) to the Newsletter editor... [your prize will be to organise the next one...] 22001100 IInntteerrnnaattiioonnaallll CCeepphhaallooppoodd FFiisshheerryy SSyymmppoossiiuumm

This conference, hosted by China Zhejiang Ocean University, the Yellow Sea Fisheries Res. Inst. Of Chinese Fisheries Academy, Taiwan Ocean University aims to inform development of a cephalopod fishery, especially its restocking and culture fishery, to allow an exchange scientific views and to facilitate joint research with international partners. It will be held in the beautiful island city, Zhoushan of the East China Sea, an emerald place at the west side of the Pacific. All cephalopod biologists are invited! CCeepphhaallooppooddss PPrreesseenntt aanndd PPaasstt

The organizers cite this as a unique opportunity for sharing research ideas and recent findings on all aspects of cephalopod biology and evolution. They particularly encourage young scientists and those using cutting-edge techniques and original approaches to attend. EEvveerryy FFrriiddaayy......

PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at University of Minnesota. He describes his own blog as 'Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal'. Every Friday he posts a cephalopod picture and has been doing so for years... NNeeww EEddiittiioonn ooff aa ccllaassssiicc bbooookk

This volume is a reprint of a classic book about Nautilus, first published in 1987, with an introductory chapter summarizing all of the work on Nautilus and its habitat since the publication of the first edition more than 20 years ago. The surge in articles in the last two decades indicates an expanded interest in the subject, reflecting a renewed appreciation of the complexity and fragility of the marine habitat and its biota. The 37 chapters are written by 48 experts in the field and cover all aspects of this living fossil from its ecology to its embryology. This volume also features new photos, including an impressive image of the first hatched Nautilus in captivity. Nautilus is an iconic in the marine realm and represents part of the diverse fauna of the Indo-Pacific. It is also a member of a lineage of shelled cephalopods dating back more than 400 million years. As a result, this volume will be relevant to the fields of marine science, evolutionary biology, and paleontology.

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