Lensia cossack Totton, 1941

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 : 184

Lensia cossack Totton, 1941

Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, Peru, from 5°S to 16°S (IMARPE database), Chile, at 23ºS off Antofagasta (Palma & Apablaza 2004), at 33ºS off Valparaíso (Palma & Silva 2006); Atlantic Ocean, Brazil to Argentina, from 0º to 42ºS (Totton 1941; Alvariño 1968, 1 971, 1981; Cordeiro & Montú 1991; Nogueira & Oliveira 1991; Dias 1994; Pugh 1999; Migotto et al. 2002; Araujo 2006, 2012; Araujo et al. 2010; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Bonecker et al. 2014; Nishiyama 2016; Nishiyama et al. 2016).

Habitat: neritic and oceanic species, epi- to mesopelagic, found in tropical and subtropical waters (Alvariño 1971; Pugh 1999; Pugh & Gasca 2009; Araujo 2012; Bonecker et al. 2014).