Monographic Revision of the Cephalopods of the Family Cranchiidae

头足类动物是一个多样化的乌贼家族，是世界海洋的主要组成部分。它们构成了中水深段食物网的重要环节。南希·沃斯博士因对家庭的系统、生物地理和进化研究而获得多项美国国家科学基金会奖。她已要求重新支持两个属的专题修订本的编写，以及该科13个属的生物地理综合。这个项目是过去贡献的自然延续，并将最终导致家庭进化和生物地理历史的综合。本研究对其他头足类动物和其他远洋动物群的进化和分布的研究具有广泛的意义。应用科学家将受益于改进的鉴定标准和附有精美插图的物种指南。

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.