Michael Vecchione is an American zoologist currently at the

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and an Elected Fellow of the

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since 2001. His highest cited paper is ''Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks'' at 661 times, according to

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. His current interests are marine

biodiversity Biodiversity is the variability of life, life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and Phylogenetics, phylogenetic diversity. Diversity is not distribut ...

and

cephalopod A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan Taxonomic rank, class Cephalopoda (Greek language, Greek plural , ; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus. These exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral symm ...

s. He described the Magnapinnidae family in 1998 along with Richard Young.

Education

He earned his B.S. at

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in 1972 and his Ph.D. at

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in 1979.

Publications

*Deep, diverse and definitely different: unique attributes of the world's largest ecosystem, 9, Biogeosciences, 2010 *The evolution of coleoid cephalopods and their present biodiversity and ecology, RE Young, M Vecchione, DT Donovan, 20, African Journal of Marine Science 1998 *''Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish: A Visual Scientific Guide to the Oceans' Most Advanced Invertebrates'', Roger Hanlon, Mike Vecchione, Louise Allcock, University of Chicago Press, 2018

References

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