Les chaetognathes de la cote d'ivoire (espèces de surface)

The Gulf of Guinea, given its distance from any oceanographic institute, was little studied during the last 19th century. Vessels such as the "Travailleur" (1880-1882), the "Talisman" (1883) and those of Prince Albert I of Monaco, the "Princesse Alice 1" (1894-1897), the "Princesse Alice II" (1901-1904) and the "Hirondelle II"(1911-1914), which all carried out expeditions in African waters, never ventured further south than Dakar and the Cape Verde Islands. During this same period, an English vessel, the "Buccaneer" (1885-1888) carried out the first expedition in the Gulf of Guinea....