Phil, what kind of information are you interest in having in the book?
My most referenced book for short species information (if you can find a copy at a reasonable price, you will have to search) is Mark Norman's Cephalopods A World Guide and is the standard most researchers use for ID.
For care, Nancy and Colin's Cephalopods, Octopuses and Cuttlefishes for the Home Aquarium (comfortably priced)
For something more scientific, Roger Hanlon and John Messenger's Cephalopod Behaviour (again look for pricing)
For some early research reading (a must read IMO) Jacques Cousteau's Octopuse And Squid, The Soft Intelligence (inexpensive used copies readily available)
For something new out Jennisfer Mather, Roland Andersons and James Wood's (TONMO Ceph), Octopus, The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate (comfortable pricing)
For some early research reading (a must read IMO) Jacques Cousteau's Octopuse And Squid, The Soft Intelligence (inexpensive used copies readily available)
I also recommend The Silent World for a good picture on the beginning humans entering the water world for exploration. It will give you a feel for how far we have come in the last 75 or so years (Cousteau would be 100 but there were no snorkels, masks or fins at his birth). Some of the adventures make you wonder that we have gotten this far.
I have decided to go with the more basic and generalized Cephalopods A World Guide. I ordered it from this website if anyone else is looking for a copy. They seem to have it in stock for a great price. http://www.mdmshellbooks.com/Cephalopods-A-World-Guide_p_111.html
Thanks for the advice everyone! I will let you know what condition the book comes in!
Phil,
I don't quite know the rules for editing a post for the everyday player . If you can edit I believe you can delete your own posts but you may have to have x number of posts to your credit before your can edit (or you may have to edit in a limited amount of time after posting). I deleted the duplicate but if you see an Edit Post to the left of Reply, you could have chosen to delete the duplicate.
I also think you should pick up Silent World and The Soft Intelligence
Now someone may have more information on it, but the book confuses me. If you look on Amazon, it says it is only volume 1. I have never heard of a volume 2 being made. It is kind of weird. So, it only goes through Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, and Idiosepiidae. Octopoda, Vampyromorpha, and "Teuthida" (which I don't think is a monophyletic order anymore).
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