Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2018
Systematists have an irritating habit of every now and then changing the names of animals. This is not our fault. However, it can lead to confusion: the giant Pacific octopus that many of us used to know as Octopus dofleini is now called Enteroctopus dofleini. A squid often referred to in this book as Loligo pleii has recently become Doryteuthis pleii.
In response to this problem we have decided, throughout this book, to use the generic name of an animal as it appears in the original published article.
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