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Contents 1 Copyvio from external link? 2 Translation from German Wikipedia 3 Expert tag added 4 Relative place on animal tree 5 Mesoglea? 6 Introduction 7 150,000 described species?

[edit] Copyvio from external link?

The "external link" has a few lines that are exactly the same as those in the Wikipedia article, making me thing some wikipedian went a plagiarized a little.

[edit] Translation from German Wikipedia

Just a quick heads up - a translation from the featured de:Rippenquallen is in progress. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 23:07, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expert tag added

The {{expert}} tag has been added to the article in case anything was lost in translation - I'm not a biologist, so can't be 100% sure that words like 'cilia' and 'phylogeny' have been used completely accurately. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 15:27, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Is this the best template to use? I'm not an expert (actually just a high school student taking AP Biology), but I can tell you that those two words work, and are fine in the article where I've seen them. Could you translate the article for Cnidaria next? Twilight Realm 05:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, I've been reviewing it myself every so often - I recently changed a translation of the German 'Schleim' from 'slime' to 'mucus', which I'm fairly sure is preferable. Things like that remind me that I'm not a biology expert and that I may have missed other sub-optimal translations. But if you don't see anything, I'm happy for you to remove the expert tag. 'Expert' might be slightly misleading, someone knowledgable in the subject was all I was looking for.

It would ideally still need someone to convert the references to in-line form, which would require someone who had access to the references provided (or some equally good ones). It couldn't be that hard, the references include page numbers after all - if I was still at university I'd have a look in the library myself. So that's not exactly an expert thing either, but it's still something that's beyond me at the moment. If that was done and my prose was overhauled, I see no reason why this couldn't join the German article as a featured article.

I'll certainly have a go at Cnidaria at some point. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 09:28, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Completely deleted obscene pictures from this page —The preceding unsigned comment was added by J;lkupoi (talk • contribs) .

From what I have read about the molecular analysis, ctenophores are believed to be basal to the metazoa. That leaves bilaterians and cnidarians as sister groups, contrary both to classical view and modern morphological view.

• I edited some of it, fixing some translation and misconceptions, but I agree with the comments above about them being basal metazoa -- I didn't try to sort that part out yet.

Regarding the pet question, the answer is: not really, but some tropical platyctenes can live in a bowl on your desk for a while... beroe 02:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

does anyone know if these can be kept as pets?

[edit] Relative place on animal tree

Aren't ctenophores between trichoplax and cnidaria? Werothegreat 12:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mesoglea?

If mesoglea is the preferred spelling, instances of mesogloea should be edited conformably. --Wetman 12:23, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Introduction

I'm not an expert in the area, but I think this page could be vastly improved by editing of the introduction. The rest of its layout is well-organized and attractive, and the intro really detracts from the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.133.94.29 (talk) 22:20, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

"Editing" is pretty vague. Doing what, exactly? 130.216.172.70 (talk) 02:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 150,000 described species?

The atricle claims that there are close to 150,000 described species. Is it really true that so many species of Ctenophore are known, or is there perhaps an error in this claim, maybe even as much as three decimal orders of magnitude? 130.188.8.9 (talk) 15:56, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Apparently the number of known species was changed from 150 to 150,000 by some casual user on March 19th. I have reverted this now, in good faith. Feel free to change it back to 150,000 if you have good references. 130.188.8.9 (talk) 16:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)