Story: Octopus and squid

More links and websites

• Arrow squids of the genus Nototodarus in New Zealand waters: systematics, biology, and fisheries

  This 1987 article, originally published in the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, gives details of two species of arrow squid present in New Zealand waters.

• Egg laying behaviour of the broad squid, Sepioteuthis bilineata

  A 1971 article from the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, which documents broad squid laying egg capsules on an artificial reef in Northland.

• The giant octopus Haliphron atlanticus (Mollusca: Octopoda) in New Zealand waters

  This 2004 paper, published in the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, provides the first record of giant octopus in the South Pacific (pdf)

• The Octopus News Magazine Online

  Online community and news about octopus, squid and other cephalopods.

More suggestions and sources

• Batson, Peter. Deep New Zealand: blue water, black abyss. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2003.
• Young, Emma. ‘Monsters of the deep.’ New Scientist 2,406 (August 2003): 25–29.