Beroe cucumis Fabricius, 1780

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 : 211

Beroe cucumis Fabricius, 1780

Remarks: Harbison et al. (1978) documented the presence of Beroe spp., “most of them ressembling Beroe cucumis ” off the northern Brazilian coast and Guianas.

Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, Peru to Chile, from 3ºS to 55ºS (Palma 1971, 1994; Palma & Rosales 1995; Pagès & Orejas 1999; Palma & Apablaza 2004; IMARPE database 2009; Pavez et al. 2010); Atlantic Ocean, Brazil to Argentina, from 30°S to 59°S (Mianzan 1999; Oliveira et al. 2007).

Habitat: epipelagic species (Mayer 1912; Harbison et al. 1978).