Diphyes bojani (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 : 181-182

Diphyes bojani (Eschscholtz, 1829)

Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, Colombia, from 7°N to 3°N, 77°W to 80°W (Alvariño 1976), Peru, at 8o S 79o W (IMARPE Database), Chile, at 33ºS off Valparaíso (Palma 1973, 1977), at 33.7ºS 78.8ºW in adjacent waters of Juan Fernández archipelago (Leloup 1932); Atlantic Ocean, Colombia, from 10.27°N to 10.42°N, 75.50°W to 75.57°W off Cartagena Bay, at 11.2°N 74.2°W off Gaira Inlet (Moncaleano & Niño 1976; Domínguez 2002), off French Guiana (Leloup 1934), Brazil to Argentina, from 0° to 41°S (Leloup 1932, 1934; Leloup & Hentschel 1935; Legaré 1961; Seguin 1965; Alvariño 1968, 1971, 1981; Abreu & Nogueira 1989; Cordeiro & Montú 1991; Nogueira & Oliveira 1991; Dias 1994; Pugh, 1999; Migotto et al., 2002; Araujo, 2006, 2012; Araujo et al., 2010; Silveira & Morandini, 2011; Nogueira Jr. 2012; Bonecker et al. 2014; Nogueira Jr. et al. 2015b; Nishiyama et al. 2016).

Habitat: neritic and oceanic species, epi- to bathypelagic, found in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters (Alvariño 1971, 1981; Abreu & Nogueira 1989; Nogueira & Oliveira 1991; Cordeiro & Montú 1991; Pagés & Gili 1992; Pugh & Gasca 2009; Araujo 2012; Bonecker et al. 2014).