Dynamena crisioides Lamouroux, 1824

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 : 126

Dynamena crisioides Lamouroux, 1824

Synonyms in the area: Thuiaria tubuliformis —Nutting 1904; Fraser 1938a, 1938b; Maÿal 1978; Calder et al. 2003 [polyp]; Dynamena crisioides f. typica —Vannucci Mendes, 1946; Vannucci 1949, 1951a, 1954 [polyp]; Thuiaria crisioides —Fraser 1948; Calder et al. 2003 [polyp].

Distribution in South America: polyp—Pacific Ocean, Colombia, at 6.78°N 77.60°W in Octavia Bay, at 5.99°N 77.36°W in Port Utria, at 2.99°N 78.199°W in Gorgona Island, Ecuador, from 1.4°S to 1.5°S in Galápagos Archipelago, at 2.19°S 80.90°W in Santa Elena Bay (Fraser 1938a, 1938b, 1948; Houvenaghel & Houvenaghel 1974; Calder et al. 2003); Atlantic Ocean, at Aruba, at Curaçao, at Bonaire, Colombia, at Cartagena, and at Santa Marta coast, Venezuela, at La Tortuga Island, at Los Frailes Island, at Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, from 3°S to 4.50°S, from 6.50°S to 10.50°S, from 11.50°S to 18.25°S, from 20°S to 24.50°S, from 25.70°S to 26°S (Nutting 1904; Leloup 1935; Vannucci Mendes 1946; Vannucci 1949, 1951a, 1954; Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen 1965; Vervoort 1967; Wedler 1975; Maÿal 1978; Bandel & Wedler 1987; Haddad 1992; Pires et al. 1992; Migotto 1996; Grohmann 1997, 2006; Grohmann et al. 1997; Nogueira et al. 1997; Rosso & Marques 1997; Calder & Maÿal 1998; Migotto et al. 2002; Marques & Migotto 2003; Marques et al. 2006; Campos & Alonso 2008, abstract; Maronna et al. 2008, abstract; Oliveira et al. 2008, abstract; Amaral et al. 2009; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Miranda et al. 2015).

Habitat: polyp—in estuarine regions and rocky shores, “in partially protected places” (Migotto 1996:61), from intertidal zone to 27m depth, on sandstone reef, on algae, bivalves, polychaeta, rocks (Vannucci Mendes 1946; Fraser 1938a, 1948; Houvenaghel & Houvenaghel 1974; Bandel & Wedler 1987; Haddad 1992; Migotto 1996; Calder & Maÿal 1998; Calder et al. 2003; Marques & Migotto 2003; Marques et al. 2006).