Is cryptic biodiversity a common phenomenon among Atlantic oceanic squids?

• Published in: Proceedings of 1st International Electronic Conference on Biological Diversity, Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel, Villanueva, Roger, Allcock, Louise
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2021
• Subjects: Atlantic oceanic squids; Cephalopoda; Systematics; Phylogenetics; DNA barcoding; New Zealand; Joubin; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10379/16621; https://doi.org/10.3390/BDEE2021-09438

Historically, marine oceanic open environments have been considered without barriers to dispersal, and the subsequent speciation of lineages from distant areas. As a consequence, many marine pelagic marine invertebrates are considered as monotypic cosmopolitan taxa, sometimes even including divergen...