Bassia bassensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1833)

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 : 178-179

Bassia bassensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1833)

Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, Colombia, from 5°N to 1°N (Cely & Chiquillo 1993), Ecuador to Chile, from 0º to 41ºS (Alvariño 1971), from 8ºS to 18ºS (IMARPE, database), from 23ºS to 37ºS (Palma 1973, 1977; Ulloa et al. 2000; Pagès et al. 2001; Palma & Apablaza 2004; Apablaza & Palma 2006; Palma & Silva 2006; Pavez et al. 2010), at 33ºS 78ºW in the adjacent waters of Juan Fernández archipelago (Leloup 1932); Atlantic Ocean, Colombia, from 17°N to 10ºN, at San Andrés, Providencia Island, Cartagena Bay and Gaira Inlet (Alvariño 1968, 1971; Moncaleano & Niño 1976; Giraldo & Villalobos 1983; Domínguez 2002), off French Guiana (Leloup 1934, Leloup & Hentschel 1935), Brazil to Argentina, from 0º to 49ºS (Chun 1897; Moser 1925; Leloup 1934, 1937, 1955; Leloup & Hentschel 1935; Seguin 1965; Alvariño 1968, 1971, 1981; Abreu & Nogueira 1989; 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; Nogueira Jr. et al. 2015b).

Habitat: neritic and oceanic species, epi- and mesopelagic, found in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters (Alvariño 1971, 1981; Pagès & Gili 1992; Pugh & Gasca 2009; Araujo 2012; Bonecker et al. 2014).