Taxonomy of Cephalopods

Sasikumar, Geetha and Sajikumar, K K and Jasmin, F and Kavitha, M and Gomathi, P and Bhendekar, S N and Pradhan, Rajesh Kumar and Venkatesan, V and Viswambharan, Divya and Mohan, S (2022) Taxonomy of Cephalopods. In: ICAR-CMFRI -Winter School on Recent Development in Taxonomic Techniques of Marine Fishes for Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries Management. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 480-488.

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    Abstract

    Cephalopods are ecologically and commercially important invertebrates with a wealth of extant marine taxa spanning from neritic continental shelf to the abyssal plains. The class Cephalopoda includes two, distantly related, extant subclasses, the primitive Nautiloidea, represented by the externally shelled nautiluses; and Coleoidea, which includes the ten-armed squids & cuttlefishes and the eight-armed octopuses. The commercial importance of this exclusive marine mollusc has risen in the last six decades remarkably across a highly diverse set of cephalopod taxa. The positive trend in cephalopod abundance has been attributed to a range of coastal and oceanic environmental changes, together with the potential release of cephalopods from predation and competition pressures (Doubleday et al., 2016). The fishery mainly targets the coastal species of squid, cuttlefish and octopus besides the oceanic squids when encountered within the operational range of commercial fleets while undertaking migration (Rodhouse et al., 2014).

    Item Type: Book Section
    Subjects: Molluscan Fisheries > Cephalopods
    Molluscan Fisheries
    Marine Ecosystems > Coral Reefs > Taxonomy
    Divisions: CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Molluscan Fisheries Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Molluscan Fisheries Division
    CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Molluscan Fisheries Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Molluscan Fisheries Division
    Depositing User: Arun Surendran
    Date Deposited: 16 Feb 2022 04:37
    Last Modified: 17 Feb 2023 11:36
    URI: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/15793

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