A free, online, entoLIVE event, presented by Fernando Á. Fernández-Álvarez and coordinated by the Biological Recording Company.
Flying squids are fascinating organisms. They exist in their own kingdom in mesopelagic realm, where they attain huge biomasses and are crucial for energy and matter cycles in the water column. Besides their ecological importance, they are very also important economically, as they sustain almost 50 % of current cephalopod landings in the world. Fernando will give a short snapshot of their mysterious and amazing life, as well as how each species is related to each other.Fernando Ángel Fernández-Álvarez is a marine zoologist specialising in cephalopods with a focus on the oceanic squids that occupy pelagic offshore environments. As the object of his doctoral dissertation, flying squids occupy a special spot in his heart. Among other topics, he has studied their evolutionary relations, their reproductive biology and how sperm is transferred among males and females, who will store them for long periods of time.
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