Octopus Biology and Ecology

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction
1. Octopus evolutionary history
2. Global biodiversity and biogeography of coastal octopuses

Part II Species account
Family Octopodidae
3. Octopus bimaculatus, Two-spotted octopus
4. Octopus bimaculoides, Lesser two-spotted octopus
5. Octopus cyanea, Big blue octopus
6. Octopus insularis, Brazil reef octopus
7. Octopus maya, Mayan octopus
8. Octopus mimus, Changos octopus
9. Octopus minor, Whiparm octopus
10. Octopus tehuelchus, Small Patagonian octopus
11. Octopus tetricus, Gloomy octopus
12. Octopus aff. tetricus, Western rock octopus
13. Octopus vulgaris, Common octopus
14. Abdopus aculeatus, Prickly octopus
15. Amphioctopus aegina, Sandbird octopus
16. Amphioctopus fangsiao, Gold-spot octopus
17. Hapalochlaena lunulata, Greater blue-ringed octopus
18. Paroctopus parvus, Bean octopus
Family Eledonidae
19. Eledone cirrhosa, Horned lesser octopus
20. Eledone moschata, Musky lesser octopus
Family Megaleledonidae
21. Graneledone pacifica
Family Enteroctopodidae
22. Enteroctopus dofleini, Giant Pacific octopus
23. Enteroctopus megalocyathus, Patagonian giant octopus

Part III Conclusions
24. The future of research into octopus biology and ecology

Authors

Rui Rosa Associate Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Laborat�rio Mar�timo da Guia, Faculdade de Ci�ncias da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Rui Rosa graduated in Marine Biology by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) in 1999 and completed a PhD degree in Biology by the same institution in 2005. After post-doctoral activities at the University of Rhode Island (USA), he became Senior Researcher and Auxiliary Professor at FCUL. He published 202 peer reviewed publications (h-factor of 32), 3 books and 10 book chapters. He has co-edited 2 books and conducts editorial activities in several international journals. His research seeks to understand how climate-related drivers of change affect marine biodiversity, including cephalopods. Ian Gleadall Consultant Professor at AiCeph LLC, Sendai, Japan. Professor of Marine Biology (part-time), Tohoku University Research Centre for Marine Biology, Asamushi, Japan.. Professor, International Fisheries Science Unit, Tohoku University Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Japan Graham Pierce Head of the Department of Marine ecology and Resources, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) (IIM CSIC), Vigo, Spain. Graham Pierce is a Zoology graduate (University of London, 1980) with a Masters degree in Ecology and a PhD in animal behaviour (both University of Aberdeen, 1981 and 1986). He worked as a postdoc at the University of Aberdeen until 1996, on marine mammal feeding ecology and (since 1990) cephalopod biology and ecology, then joining the University's teaching staff and becoming Professor in 2008. He held a Marie Curie Chair at Instituto Espa�ol de Oceanografia (Vigo, Spain) during 2007-2010 and was a visiting professor at University of Aveiro (Portugal) during 2013-2016. He left Aberdeen to join IIM CSIC in 2017, and is currently Head of the Department of Marine ecology and Resources. He has published 290 papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as 40 book chapers and has co-edited four books on cephalopods. He is co-chair of the ICES Workng Group on Cephalopod Fisheries and Life History and a past President of the Cephlopod International Advisory Council. He works on the life history, ecology, exploitation and conservation of marine animals, with particular interests in cephalopods and marine mammals. Roger Villanueva Scientist, Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain. Roger Villanueva graduated in Biological Sciences by the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona in 1989 and obtained the PhD from the same institution in 1992 studying the ecology of cephalopods from the Benguela Current. Later, during his two-year postdoctoral stay at the Observatoire Oc�anologique de Banyuls, France, he discovered the beauty of the early life stages of cephalopods and these remain as one of his preferred research topics to the present. He is tenured scientist at the Institut de Ci�ncies del Mar from 2001, he has published 60 peer-reviewed articles, 4 book chapters an co-edited one book.