Gossea brachymera Bigelow, 1909a

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 : 194

Gossea brachymera Bigelow, 1909a

Synonyms in the area:? Octobulbacea montehermosensis Zamponi, 1983b ; Genzano et al. 2008a [medusa].

Distribution in South America: medusa—Pacific Ocean, Chile, from 33°S to 46°S (Fagetti 1973 p. 41; Palma et al. 2007a); Atlantic Ocean, Brazil to Argentina, from 25.80°S to 26.5°S, from 29°S to 35°S, from 37.14ºS to 39.84ºS, and near entrance of Strait of Magellan (Kramp 1957; Vannucci & Tundisi 1962; Navas-Pereira 1974, 1981; Migotto et al. 2002; Nogueira Jr. 2006; Genzano et al. 2008a; Nogueira Jr. 2012; Nagata et al. 2014a; Nogueira Jr. et al. 2015a).

Habitat: medusa—stenohaline and eurythermic species, from 2 to 38m depth (Kramp 1957; Navas-Pereira 1974).