Lists of Shiphonophores, Polychaetes, Decapods and Chaetognaths in the Gulf of California, Mexico

Abstract

This work is part of the results of the research of the Laboratory of Invertebrates of the Facultad de Ciencias UNAM, partially financed by the Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) developing during 2006-2007. The purpose is contributed to knowledge of the biodiversity of the complex pelagic community that lives in the Gulf of California. Faunistics lists of sorting material from 175 samples taking of the epipelagic region during four oceanographics cruseis (AA7704, AA7802, AA7810 and GOLCA8404), including siphonophores, polychaetes, decapods and chaetognaths are present. A total of 97.963 specimens (or zooids, in case of the siphonophores). were identified, which 10,821 were siphonophores, 30,894 polychaetes, 4,314 decapods and 5 1,934 chaetognaths. These lists include 9 orders. 31 families, 9 genera and 56 species.