Aglaura hemistoma Péron & Lesueur, 1809

OLIVEIRA, OTTO M. P., MIRANDA, THAÍS P., ARAUJO, ENILMA M., AYÓN, PATRICIA, CEDEÑO-POSSO, CRISTINA M., CEPEDA-MERCADO, AMANCAY A., CÓRDOVA, PABLO, CUNHA, AMANDA F., GENZANO, GABRIEL N., HADDAD, MARIA ANGÉLICA, MIANZAN, HERMES W., MIGOTTO, ALVARO E., MIRANDA, LUCÍLIA S., MORANDINI, ANDRÉ C., NAGATA, RENATO M., NASCIMENTO, KARINE B., JÚNIOR, MIODELI NOGUEIRA, PALMA, SERGIO, QUIÑONES, JAVIER, RODRIGUEZ, CAROLINA S., SCARABINO, FABRIZIO, SCHIARITI, AGUSTÍN, STAMPAR, SÉRGIO N., TRONOLONE, VALQUÍRIA B. & MARQUES, ANTONIO C., 2016, Census of Cnidaria (Medusozoa) and Ctenophora from South American marine waters, Zootaxa 4194 (1), pp. 1-256 : 201-202

Aglaura hemistoma Péron & Lesueur, 1809

Distribution in South America: medusa—Pacific Ocean, Colombia to Chile, from 20°N to 55.84°S (Kramp 1966; Fagetti 1973 p. 41–42; Segura-Puertas 1984; Palma 1985; Cely & Chiquillo 1993; Palma 1994; Palma & Rosales 1995; Pagès et al. 2001; Palma & Apablaza 2004; Apablaza & Palma 2006; Baldrich 2007; Palma et al. 2007a p. 70, 73, 2007b p. 80; Villenas et al. 2009); Atlantic Ocean, Colombia to Uruguay, from 17°N to 35°S (Vannucci 1957, 1963; Alvariño 1968; Navas-Pereira 1974, 1981; Goy 1979; Ramírez & Zamponi 1981; Correia 1983; Giraldo & Villalobos 1983; Domínguez 2002; Migotto et al. 2002; Tronolone 2008; Nascimento 2010; Oliveira et al. 2010b, abstract; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Bonecker et al. 2014; Nagata et al. 2014a, 2014b; Gusmão et al. 2015; Nogueira Jr. et al., 2015b).

Habitat: medusa—eurythermic and euryhaline species, epi-mesopelagic, distributed in warm and temperate waters of all oceans, including Mediterranean Sea (Kramp 1957; Navas-Pereira 1974; Correia 1983; Segura- Puertas 1984; Bonecker et al. 2014). In southeastern Brazilian coast the species is associated with the tropical water mass of the Brazil Current (Oliveira et al. 2010b, abstract; Bonecker et al. 2014; Nagata et al. 2014a, 2014b; Nogueira Jr. et al. 2015b).