Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910

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 : 148

Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910

Distribution in South America: medusa—Atlantic Ocean, Brazil to Argentina, from 7.68°S to 8.24°S, from 25°S to 26.50°S, and at the Río de la Plata Estuary (Paranaguá 1963; Migotto et al. 2002; Genzano et al. 2006, 2008a; Nogueira Jr. & Oliveira, 2006; Bardi & Marques 2009; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Nogueira Jr. 2012; Freire et al. 2014; Nogueira Jr. et al. 2015a).

Habitat: medusa—species considered a bioinvader (Genzano et al. 2006; Freire et al. 2014), commonly reported “within estuarine areas of temperate and tropical regions” (Bardi & Marques 2009:47).