Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni Moser, 1925

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 : 176

Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni Moser, 1925

Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, Chile, at 33ºS off Valparaiso (Palma & Rosales 1995), at the fjords and channels of southern Chile (Palma & Rosales 1997; Palma et al. 1999, 2007b, 2011, 2014a; Palma & Aravena 2001; Palma & Silva 2004; Villenas et al. 2009); Atlantic Ocean, Argentina, from 39º to 65ºS (Alvariño 1981; Pugh 1999; Guerrero et al. 2010; Araujo 2012; specimens collected in this study).

Habitat: neritic and oceanic species, restricted to Antarctic and Subantarctic waters (Totton 1965; Alvariño 1981; Pugh 1999; Palma & Silva 2004; Guerrero et al. 2010; Araujo 2012).