Liriope tetraphylla (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)

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 : 200

Liriope tetraphylla (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)

Synonyms in the area: Liriope catharinensis F. Müller, 1859 [medusa]; Geryonia proboscidalis —Zamponi & Genzano 1994; Genzano et al. 2008a [medusa].

Remarks: Collins et al. (2008) suggested that this species may be referable to Limnomedusae .

Distribution in South America: medusa—Pacific Ocean, Colombia to Chile, from 20°N to 20°S, from 22.50°S to 46°S (Kramp 1965, 1966; Alvariño 1976; Segura-Puertas 1984; Cely & Chiquillo 1993; Palma 1994; Palma & Rosales 1995; Pagès et al. 2001; Palma & Apablaza 2004; Apablaza & Palma 2006; Baldrich 2007; Palma et al. 2007a p. 70, 73, 2007b p. 74, 80, 2011; Pavez et al. 2010; IMARPE database of zooplankton; Chirichigno, pers. comm.); Atlantic Ocean, Colombia to Argentina, from 17°N to 39.84°S, at 47°S 59°W, at 54.97°S 66.80°W (F. Müller 1859; Vannucci 1951a, 1951b, 1957a; Kramp 1957; Vannucci & Tundisi 1962; Alvariño 1968; Moreira 1973, 1978; Moncaleano & Niño 1976; Goy 1979; Navas-Pereira 1974, 1980, 1981; Ramírez & Zamponi 1980, 1981; Correia 1983; Giraldo & Villalobos 1983; Zamponi 1983a; Zamponi & Suarez 1991; Zamponi & Genzano 1994; Tronolone 2001, 2008; Domínguez 2002; Migotto et al. 2002; Tronolone & Migotto 2005, abstract; Genzano et al. 2008a; Nascimento 2010; Oliveira et al. 2010b, abstract; Blough et al. 2011; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Nogueira Jr. 2012; Nagata et al. 2014a, 2014b; Gusmão et al. 2015; Nogueira Jr. et al. 2015a, 2015b).

Habitat: holoplanktonic, eurythermic and euryhaline species, usually distributed and common in warm waters of all oceans (Kramp 1959a).