Overview

This module is organized according to major plankton groups presented in 29 traditional
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Chapter 1. General biological features of the South Atlantic — Demetrio Boltovskoy, Mark Gibbons, Lawrence Hutchings, and Denis Binet
Chapter 2. Foraminifera — Sylvia Kemle-von Mücke and Christoph Hemleben
Chapter 3. Acantharia — Renate Bernstein, Stanley A. Kling and Demetrio Boltovskoy
Chapter 4. Radiolaria Polycystina — Demetrio Boltovskoy
Chapter 5. Radiolaria Phaeodaria — Stanley A. Kling and Demetrio Boltovskoy
Chapter 6. Ciliophora — Wolfgang Petz
Chapter 7. Tintinnoinea — Viviana A. Alder
Chapter 8. Hydromedusae — Jean Bouillon
Chapter 9. Siphonophorae — Phil R. Pugh
Chapter 10. Cubomedusae and Scyphomedusae — Hermes W. Mianzan and Paul F.S. Cornelius
Chapter 11. Ctenophora — Hermes W. Mianzan
Chapter 12. Nemertina — Ray Gibson
Chapter 13. Polychaeta — Maria Ana Fernandez-Alamo and Erik V. Thuesen
Chapter 14. Heteropoda — Gotthard Richter and Roger R. Seapy
Chapter 15. Pteropoda — Siebrecht van der Spoel and José R. Dadon
Chapter 16. Cephalopoda — Kir N. Nesis
Chapter 17. Ctenopoda and Onychopoda (Cladocera) — Takashi Onbé
Chapter 18. Ostracoda — Martin V. Angel
Chapter 19. Copepoda — Janet M. Bradford-Grieve, Elena L. Markhaseva, Carlos E. F. Rocha and Bernardo Abiahy
Chapter 20. Mysidacea — Masaaki Murano
Chapter 21. Amphipoda — Georgyi Vinogradov
Chapter 22. Euphausiacea — Mark J. Gibbons, Vassily A. Spiridonov and Geraint A. Tarling
Chapter 23. Larval Decapoda (Brachyura larvae) — Gerhard Pohle, Fernando L.M. Mantelatto, Maria L. Negreiros-Fransozo, and Adilson Fransozo
Chapter 24. Chaetognatha — Jean-Paul Casanova
Chapter 25. Appendicularia — Graciela B. Esnal
Chapter 26. Pyrosomatida — Graciela B. Esnal
Chapter 27. Doliolida — Graciela B. Esnal and María C. Daponte
Chapter 28. Salpida — Graciela B. Esnal and María C. Daponte
Chapter 29. Fish larvae — Yasunobu Matsuura and Maria Pilar Olivar