Aglaophenia dubia Nutting, 1900

Synonyms in the area: Aglaophenia elongata —Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen 1965 [non Aglaophenia elongata Meneghini, 1845] [polyp].

Remarks: Svoboda & Cornelius (1991) regarded all records of Aglaophenia elongata Meneghini, 1845 outside the Mediterranean Sea to be erroneous. Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen’s (1965) record of the species was assigned to A. dubia in an earlier work (Calder 1997).

Distribution in South America: polyp—Atlantic Ocean, Venezuela, at la Tortuga Island, Brazil, at 18.24°S 37.97°W (Ritchie 1909; Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen 1965; Migotto et al. 2002).

Habitat: polyp—at 65m depth with Halicornaria longicauda, on coral (Ritchie 1909).