| A BRIEF HISTORY OF (CEPHALOPOD) EARLY-LIFE-HISTORY STUDIES |
| VECCHIONE, M., NMFS National Systematics Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012 USA |
| Organized field studies of young cephalopods date back to the classical exploratory expeditions of the late 1800s. Laboratory studies of cephalopod embryology and post-hatching development have developed along a similar timeline. Both lines of investigation became focused in the early 1900s when Adolf Naef decided that cephalopods would be a good group for a general study of evolution. After Naef’s publications in the 1920s, field studies of early life history languished until establishment of the Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC) in the 1980s, although progress continued in the embryology of coastal species. One of CIAC’s first efforts was to stimulate work on post-hatching development. Much progress has been made since the 1985 CIAC meeting at Laboratoire Arago in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France. That meeting, the first of its kind, and collaborations that resulted from interactions there, set the foundation for much of the research to be presented during this special cephalopod session of the Early-Life-History Section of the American Fisheries Society. |
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