Lensia fowleri (Bigelow, 1911)

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 : 184

Lensia fowleri (Bigelow, 1911)

Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, Peru, at 8.14°S 79.56°W (IMARPE Database), Chile, at 23ºS off Antofagasta (Palma & Apablaza 2004; Apablaza & Palma 2006), at 33ºS off Valparaíso (Palma & Silva 2006); Atlantic Ocean, Colombia, from 10.5°N to 10.3°N, 75.5°W to 75.6°W at Cartagena Bay (Moncaleano & Niño 1976), off French Guiana (Leloup 1934), Brazil to Argentina, from 0º to 45ºS (Leloup & Hentschel 1935; Alvariño 1971, 1981; Dias 1994; Pugh 1999; Migotto et al. 2002; Araujo 2006, 2012; Araujo et al. 2010; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Bonecker et al. 2014; Nishiyama 2016; Nishiyama et al. 2016).

Habitat: neritic and oceanic species, epipelagic, found in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters (Alvariño 1971; Pagès & Gili 19992; Pugh 1999; Pugh & Gasca 2009; Araujo 2012; Bonecker et al. 2014).