Recent studies have shown that coastal and shelf cephalopod populations have increased
globally over the last six decades. Although cephalopod landings are dominated by the …

Life cycle definitions provide the background for conceptualizing meaningful questions to
address the mechanisms that generate different life cycle patterns. This review provides …

Cephalopods (nautiluses, cuttlefishes, squids and octopuses) exhibit direct development
and display two major developmental modes: planktonic and benthic. Planktonic hatchlings …

Coleoids are the most diverse group of cephalopod mollusks. While their origin is date
during the Mesozoic, the diversification pattern is unknown. However, two hypotheses have …

Here, we evaluate the so-called Thorson's rule, which posits that direct-development and
larger eggs are favored toward the poles in marine organisms and whose validity been the …

One of the major mechanisms responsible for the animals' fitness dynamics is fecundity.
Fecundity as a trait does not evolve independently, and rather interacts with other traits such …

The common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, is a good candidate for aquaculture but a
sustainable production is still unviable due to an almost total mortality during the paralarvae …

Los conceptos de ciclo de vida e historia de vida tienen un amplio uso en ecología y
evolución, pero no existe una definición formal de ambos conceptos. En esta revisión se …

Patagonian red octopus, Enteroctopus megalocyathus, is a valuable resource of the
artisanal fishery in southern Chile, however, due to overfishing the E. megalocyathus fishery …

The blue-ringed octopus species complex (Hapalochlaena spp.), known to occur from
Southern Australia to Japan, currently contains four formally described species …