Cephalopoda
Suggested reading

(see also Ce table 2, Selected references on South Atlantic cephalopods and their early stages of development (papers devoted to isolated genera and species are not included).

Boletzky S. von. 1974. The "larvae" of Cephalopoda: a review. Thalassia Jugoslavica, 10:45-76.
—General description of larval stages of cephalopods.

Boyle P. (ed.). 1983-1987. Cephalopod life cycles. V.1: Species accounts; V.2: Comparative reviews. Academic Press, London, V.1, pp. 1-475; V.2, pp. 1-441.
—Descriptions of paralarvae of some representative species.

Clarke M.R. (ed.). 1996. The role of cephalopods in the world's oceans. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, B, 351:979-1112.
—General data on the role of cephalopods in the World Ocean as consumers and as prey.

Clarke M.R. 1966. A review of the systematics and ecology of oceanic squids. Advances Mar. Biol., 4:91-300.
—A general review of reproduction and distribution of all oceanic squids and Spirula known to date.

Fioroni P. 1978. Cephalopoda, Tintenfische. Morphogenese der Tiere, Lief. 2, G5-1. G. Fischer, Stuttgart, pp. 1-181.
—A general description of cephalopod ontogeny.

Guerra Sierra A. 1992. Mollusca Cephalopoda. In "Fauna Iberica, 1", Mus. Nac. Cienc. Natur., Madrid, pp. 1-327.
—A good introductory work. A brief review of cephalopod systematics, with keys in Spanish. Glossary of important terms (without illustrations).

Mangold K. (ed.). 1989. Céphalopodes. In "Traité de Zoologie", 5(4) (P.P. Grassé, ed.), Masson, Paris, pp. 1-804.
—Most important review work, incl. cephalopod development, ontogeny, taxonomy and distribution.

Naef A. 1921-1923. Die Cephalopoden. Fauna Flora Golfes Neapel, 35(1):1-863.
—Descriptions and figures of larval and juvenile stages of most Mediterranean cephalopods.

Nesis K.N. 1985. Oceanic cephalopods: distribution, life forms, evolution. Nauka, Moskva, pp. 1-287.
—A list of all oceanic cephalopods known to date, with distributional data and list of genera of those inhabiting the shelves (in Russian).

Nesis K.N. 1987. Cephalopods of the World. TFH Publications, Neptune City, pp. 1-351.
—Keys for all oceanic cephalopods of the world, and shelf cephalopods of many areas, incl. South Atlantic.

Nesis K.N. 1996. The system of recent cephalopods: The critical analysis of newly proposed improvements using the characters of the reproductive system. Zool. Zhurnal, 75(3):335-349.
—A discussion of new propositions for the systematics of cephalopods (in Russian).

Roper C.F.E., Sweeney M.J., Nauen C.E. 1984. Cephalopods of the World. FAO Species Catalogue, 3, FAO Fisheries Synopsis, 125(3):1-127.
—Illustrated glossary of important terms.

Roper C.F.E., Voss G.L. 1983. Guidelines for taxonomic descriptions of cephalopod species. Mem. Nat. Mus. Victoria, 38:48-63.
—Lists of taxonomically important characters of various cephalopod orders.

Roper C.F.E., Young R.E., Voss G.L. 1969. An illustrated key to the families of the order Teuthoidea. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool., 13:1-32.
—Illustrations of representative genera and species with keys to the family level.

Sweeney M.J., Roper C.F.E., Mangold K., Clarke M.R., Boletzky S. von (eds.). 1992. "Larval" and juvenile cephalopods: A manual for their identification. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool., 513:1-282.
—Illustrated glossary of important terms, keys of late larval and juvenile cephalopods to family and genus levels, and illustrations of the larvae of most species having a larval stage.

Young R.E. 1972. The systematics and areal distribution of pelagic cephalopods from the seas off Southern California. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool., 97:1-159.
—A good, well-illustrated description of oceanic cephalopods and larval stages of gonatid squids off California.