Cunina frugifera Kramp, 1948

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 : 196

Cunina frugifera Kramp, 1948

Remarks: the record by Genzano et al. (2008a) corresponds to a specimen of Pegantha laevis Bigelow, 1909a . The distribution range provided by Ramírez & Zamponi (1981) is not based on specific records and, therefore, we did not consider that information for this species.

Distribution in South America: medusa—Pacific Ocean, Colombia to Chile, from 5°N to 4.77°N, from 3.50°S to 18.50°S, and at northwest and southwest of Galápagos Archipelago (Alvariño 1976; Segura-Puertas 1984; Cely & Chiquillo 1993); Atlantic Ocean, Brazil to Argentina, from 20.5°S to 40°S (Kramp 1957; Navas-Pereira 1974, 1981; Zamponi 1983a, 1985; Migotto et al. 2002; Genzano et al. 2008a; Bonecker et al. 2014).

Habitat: medusa—up to 1400m depth (Kramp 1957), occurring in warm waters of Atlantic Ocean and southwards to Uruguay (Kramp 1959a; Bonecker et al. 2014).