Ctenophora
Acknowledgements

I am indebted to C. Mills (Seattle, U.S.A.) for taxonomic advice and checking and completing the list of taxa, F. Pagès (Barcelona, Spain) and M. Gibbons (South Africa) for information on ctenophores from Tierra del Fuego and South Africa, respectively. To F. Ramírez (Argentina) for critically reading the manuscript; to P.F.S. Cornelius (Nat. Hist. Museum, London, UK) for his help in obtaining the bibliography. To N. Scarlatto for many translations from the German, and to E. Giolitti, M. Scelzo and M. Tobio for the photographs. I also deeply appreciate the METEOR (SARP), EVRIKA and OCA BALDA crews for shipboard help. This is contribution N°1003 of INIDEP.