An annotated and illustrated list of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) recorded from Brazilian waters, with an identification key to species

An annotated list of cephalopods from the Brazilian Economic Exclusive Zone is presented. Species are briefly described, mainly based on external characters with information on their habitat and distribution, and images of freshly caught or preserved specimens are given. This list updates the nomen...

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Main Authors: Manuel Haimovici, Roberta Aguilar dos Santos, Luciano Gomes Fischer, Mario A. Salcedo Vargas, Tatiana Silva Leite
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Published: Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP) 2025-06-01
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description An annotated list of cephalopods from the Brazilian Economic Exclusive Zone is presented. Species are briefly described, mainly based on external characters with information on their habitat and distribution, and images of freshly caught or preserved specimens are given. This list updates the nomenclature and geographical distribution given in previous lists, and it includes some recently described species, as well as unpublished records identified to genera. A key for the identification of families, genera and species, and images of live specimens are included. A total of 93 species are recorded, belonging to the orders Spirulida (1), Sepioidea (6), Myopsida (6), Oegopsida (46), Bathyteuhida (2), Vampyromorpha (1) and Octopoda, suborders Cirrata (4) and Incirrata (27), all in the Subclass Coloidea. Almost half of the species are benthic from the continental shelf or slope, and the remainder are water-column species, mostly from the slope and adjacent oceanic waters. Only 17 species are considered endemic to the southwest Atlantic, including two that are currently known to occur only in Brazil.
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spelling doaj-art-75af95789f2f420badadbd0c0d01049c2025-08-20T03:26:42ZengInstituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)Marine and Fishery Sciences2683-79512025-06-0138310.47193/mafis.3832025010708An annotated and illustrated list of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) recorded from Brazilian waters, with an identification key to speciesManuel Haimovici0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1741-8182Roberta Aguilar dos Santos1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9752-0739Luciano Gomes Fischer2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7219-4364Mario A. Salcedo Vargas3https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3653-915XTatiana Silva Leite4Instituto de Oceanografia (IO), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Avenida Itália, km 8, 96203-900 - Rio Grande, BrazilInstituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação da Biodiversidade Marinha do Sudeste e Sul (CEPSUL), Av. Ministro Victor Konder 374, 88301-700 - Itajaí, BrazilNúcleo em Ecologia e Desenvolvimento Socioambiental de Macaé (NUPEM), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Av. São José Barreto 764, 27965-045 - Macaé, Brazil1B Albert Park App, Suva, FijiDepartamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), 88062-200 - Florianopolis, Brazil An annotated list of cephalopods from the Brazilian Economic Exclusive Zone is presented. Species are briefly described, mainly based on external characters with information on their habitat and distribution, and images of freshly caught or preserved specimens are given. This list updates the nomenclature and geographical distribution given in previous lists, and it includes some recently described species, as well as unpublished records identified to genera. A key for the identification of families, genera and species, and images of live specimens are included. A total of 93 species are recorded, belonging to the orders Spirulida (1), Sepioidea (6), Myopsida (6), Oegopsida (46), Bathyteuhida (2), Vampyromorpha (1) and Octopoda, suborders Cirrata (4) and Incirrata (27), all in the Subclass Coloidea. Almost half of the species are benthic from the continental shelf or slope, and the remainder are water-column species, mostly from the slope and adjacent oceanic waters. Only 17 species are considered endemic to the southwest Atlantic, including two that are currently known to occur only in Brazil. https://ojs.inidep.edu.ar/index.php/mafis/article/view/423Cephalopodsbiogeographydistributionspecies richnesssouthwestern Atlantic Ocean
spellingShingle Manuel Haimovici
Roberta Aguilar dos Santos
Luciano Gomes Fischer
Mario A. Salcedo Vargas
Tatiana Silva Leite
An annotated and illustrated list of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) recorded from Brazilian waters, with an identification key to species
Marine and Fishery Sciences
Cephalopods
biogeography
distribution
species richness
southwestern Atlantic Ocean
title An annotated and illustrated list of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) recorded from Brazilian waters, with an identification key to species
title_full An annotated and illustrated list of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) recorded from Brazilian waters, with an identification key to species
title_fullStr An annotated and illustrated list of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) recorded from Brazilian waters, with an identification key to species
title_full_unstemmed An annotated and illustrated list of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) recorded from Brazilian waters, with an identification key to species
title_short An annotated and illustrated list of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) recorded from Brazilian waters, with an identification key to species
title_sort annotated and illustrated list of cephalopoda mollusca recorded from brazilian waters with an identification key to species
topic Cephalopods
biogeography
distribution
species richness
southwestern Atlantic Ocean
url https://ojs.inidep.edu.ar/index.php/mafis/article/view/423
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