Bougainvillia frondosa Mayer, 1900

Distribution in South America: medusa—Atlantic Ocean, Brazil to Uruguay, from 7.55°S to 8.68°S, at 16.78°S 38.88°W, from 23.5°S to 27°S, from 29°S to 35.10°S (Vannucci 1957; Vannucci & Rees 1961; Moreira 1973; Navas-Pereira 1974, 1981; Goy 1979; Migotto et al. 2002; Nascimento 2010; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Nagata et al. 2014a, 2014b; Gusmão et al. 2015).

Habitat: medusa—stenothermic and euryhaline species, from 40 to 100m depth (Vannucci 1957; Navas-Pereira 1974; Nascimento 2010).