Hippopodius hippopus (Forskål, 1776), Forskal, 1776

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 : 189

Hippopodius hippopus (Forskål, 1776)

Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, Colombia, from 7°N to 1°N (Alvariño 1976; Cely & Chiquillo 1993), Peru, from 8o S to 16o S (IMARPE database), Chile, at 23ºS off Antofagasta (Pagès et al. 2001; Apablaza & Palma 2006); Atlantic Ocean, off French Guiana (Leloup 1934; Leloup & Hentschel 1935), Brazil to Argentina, from 0º to 48ºS (Moser 1925; Seguin 1965; Alvariño 1968, 1971; 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).

Habitat: neritic and oceanic species, epipelagic, widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters (Alvariño 1971; Pugh 1974; Pagès & Gili 1992; Pugh & Gasca 2009; Araujo 2012; Bonecker et al. 2014).