“…In the last few decades, studies on the distribution and abundance of oceanic cephalopods from the Indian Ocean are scarce, and only limited studies have been documented from the Arabian Sea. However, recent advances in the knowledge of the diversity of cephalopods (Sreeja, 2013;Joseph et al, 2015;Sajikumar et al, 2016Sajikumar et al, , 2017Sajikumar et al, , 2018Sajikumar et al, , 2023Venkatesan et al, 2023) of India argue for more comprehensive studies.…”