About the Author

Dr Amanda Reid is a taxonomist with a particular interest in the Sepiida (cuttlefishes) and the Sepiolida (which includes the bottletail squids and their relatives). She earned a PhD from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and first developed an interest in the undersea world while working on polychaete worms at the Australian Museum, where she is currently Collection Manager in Malacology. She has also worked on a completely unrelated but fascinating group of terrestrial animals, the Onychophora (velvet worms).