Aegina citrea Eschscholtz, 1829

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 : 195

Aegina citrea Eschscholtz, 1829

Synonyms in the area: Aegina rosea —Vannucci 1951a.

Distribution in South America: medusa—Pacific Ocean, Chile, from 33°S to 33.67°S (Fagetti 1973 p. 45); Atlantic Ocean, Brazil to Uruguay, at 7.25°N 78.90°W, from 10°N to 35°S (Thiel 1936; Alvariño 1968; Vannucci 1951a, 1957a; Kramp 1959a, Navas-Pereira 1974, 1981; Ramírez & Zamponi 1981; Correia 1983; Segura-Puertas 1984; Migotto et al. 2002; Genzano et al. 2008a).

Habitat: medusa—species widely distributed in the warm and temperate parts of all oceans; in cold waters it is restricted to deep water, but in warm areas it may occur at all depths (Kramp 1959a; Segura-Puertas 1984).