Ctenophores are one of the most conspicuous and frequent groups of the gelatinous zooplankton community, but their regional diversity in tropical and subtropical latitudes remains largely unknown. We provide an overview and update of the current knowledge of the diversity in Mexican seas, including ocean and coastal-neritic environments of the Gulf of Mexico, the Mexican Caribbean Sea, and the Mexican Pacific Ocean. Ctenophore records were reviewed based on the available scientific and gray literature, the Naturalista network (www.naturalista.mx), and the ctenophore species collected in the Gulf of California by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. A total of 33 taxa (Class Nuda and Tentaculata) were found to occur in Mexican seas, of which 12 of the 33 taxa (36.4 % of the total) were recorded in the Gulf of Mexico, 7 (21.2 %) in the Mexican Caribbean Sea, 25 (75.8 %) in the Gulf of California, 11 (33.3 %) in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, and only 2 (6.1 %) are known in the Northeastern Pacific. Up to nine taxa included in our account represent first records for Mexico (i.e., Bathocyroe fosteri, Kiyohimea usagi, Lampocteis cruentiventer, Leucothea sp., Aulacoctena sp., Haeckelia beehleri, Charistephane fugiens, Bathyctena chuni, and Hormiphora californensis). Due to the lack of data on benthic ctenophores and the sparse studies on oceanic and deep-living species, it is expected that the list will grow as new surveys are performed in the deep sea. The lack of long-term studies on Mexican ctenophores have limited our capacity to draw valid conclusions on their abundance, total diversity, endemicity, and trophic ecology in Mexico.

Ctenophores是胶状浮游动物群落中最引人注目的和最常见的群体之一，但在热带和亚热带纬度地区的区域多样性仍然未知。我们提供了有关墨西哥海域多样性的最新知识的概述和最新信息，包括墨西哥湾，墨西哥加勒比海和墨西哥太平洋的海洋和沿海紧张环境。根据现有的科学和灰色文献，Naturalista网络（www.naturalista.mx）以及蒙特雷湾水族馆研究所在加利福尼亚湾收集的书虫物种，对书虫记录进行了审查。在墨西哥海域共发现33个分类单元（Nuda类和Tentaculata类），其中33个分类单元中的12个（占总数的36.4％）在墨西哥湾记录了7个（21个）。墨西哥加勒比海占2％，加利福尼亚湾占25（75.8％），东部热带太平洋占11（33.3％），东北太平洋仅占2（6.1％）。我们帐户中最多包含9个分类单元，代表墨西哥的第一笔记录（即，寄主杆菌（Bathocyroe domestici），美国菊苣（Kiyohimea usagi），南极夜蛾（Lampocteis cruentventer），露丝藻（Leucothea sp。），金龟子（Auracoctena sp。），海克氏菌（Haeckelia beehleri），扶桑（Charistephane fugiens），巴斯希（Bathyctena chuni）和，（Hormiphora californensis）。由于缺乏底层底栖动物的数据以及对海洋和深水生物物种的稀疏研究，预计该清单将随着在深海进行的新调查而增加。缺乏对墨西哥十足动物的长期研究，限制了我们就其丰富性，总多样性，特有性和营养生态学得出有效结论的能力。