Monographic Revision of the Cephalopods of the Family Cranchiidae

头足类动物是一种多样化的鱿鱼家族，是世界海洋中的主要组成部分。它们构成了中水深区间食物网中的重要纽带。南希·沃斯博士曾因对这个家庭的系统、生物地理学和进化研究而获得多个NSF奖。她请求重新支持编写两个属的专题修订本，并支持对该科13个属的生物地理综合。这个项目是过去贡献的自然延续，最终将导致一个家庭的进化史和生物地理史的综合。这项研究对研究其他头足类和其他远洋动物群成员的进化和分布具有广泛的意义。应用科学家将受益于改进的鉴定标准和图文并茂的物种指南。

Cranchiate cephalopods are a diverse family of squids that are a dominant component in the world's oceans. They constitute an important link in the food web in mid-water depth intervals. Dr. Nancy Voss has held several NSF awards for systematic, biogeographic and evolutionary study of the family. She has requested renewed support for the production of monographic revisions of two genera, and for a biogeographic synthesis of 13 genera in the family. This project is a natural continuation of past contributions and will lead eventually to a synthesis of the family's evolutionary and biogeographic history. The proposed research has wide implications for study of the evolution and distribution of other cephalopods, and of other members of the pelagic fauna. Applied scientists will have the benefit of improved identification criteria and superbly illustrated guides to species.