Dr. Gilbert L. Voss (1918-1989)
- Ph.D., George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.
- M.S., University of Miami, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
- B.S., University of Miami, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
Dr. Gilbert L. Voss was an influential American conservationist and oceanographer. He was one of the main persons behind the establishment of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Florida and he spoke out successfully against several proposed real estate developments that might have threatened the ecology of the Florida Keys. Professor Voss published over 200 items, including 73 book reviews, 16 editorials, and 124 research papers on such diverse topics as cephalopods, fishes, crustaceans, botany, zoogeography, history of oceanography, anthropology, archaeology, fisheries, and marine and deep sea biology. He authored or co-authored descriptions of two new families or subfamilies, 6 new genera and more than 65 new species or subspecies.
Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Voss has published the following:
Voss, G. L. 1956. A review of the cephalopods of the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 6(2): 85–178.
Voss, G. L. 1964. A note on some cephalopods from Brazil with a description of a new species of octopod, Eledone massyae. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 14(3): 511–516.
Voss, G. L. 1988. Evolution and phylogenetic relationship of deep-sea cephalopods (Cirrata and Incirrata). Pp. 253–276 in M. R. Clarke and E. R. Trueman, eds. The Mollusca, Vol. 12. Paleontology and Neontology of Cephalopods. Academic Press, San Diego, California.
Voss, G. L., and R. R. Toll. 1998. The systematics and nomenclatural status of the octopodinae described from the Western Atlantic Ocean. Pp. 457–474 in N. A. Voss, R. B. Toll, and M. Vecchione, eds. Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586(I–II).
Voss, G. L., and T. F. Brakoniecki. 1985. Squid resources of the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Atlantic coasts of the United States. Pp. 27–37 in V. M. Hodder, ed. Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization: Scientific Council Studies, Special Session on Squids 9.
Voss, G. L., L. Opresko, and R. Thomas. 1973. The potentially commercial species of octopus and squid of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. University of Miami Sea Grant Field Guide Series, No. 2: 1–33."