Aglaophenia dubia Nutting, 1900

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 : 97-98

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).