Sminthea eurygaster Gegenbaur, 1856a

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 : 204

Sminthea eurygaster Gegenbaur, 1856a

Remarks: the distribution range provided by Ramírez & Zamponi (1981) is not based on specific records and, therefore, we did not consider that information for this species.

Distribution in South America: medusa—Pacific Ocean, Colombia to Chile, from 1.50°N to 54.775°S, and at north and south of Galápagos Archipelago (Kramp 1966; Fagetti 1973; Segura-Puertas 1984; Palma & Rosales 1995; Palma & Apablaza 2004; Palma et al. 2014b); Atlantic Ocean, Brazil to Argentina, from 20.5°S to 24.5°S, from 30°S to 35°S, at 39.38°S 55.18°W, at 53.90°S 62.92°W (Navas-Pereira 1974, 1981; Zamponi 1985; Migotto et al. 2002; Genzano et al. 2008a; Nascimento 2010; Bonecker et al. 2014).

Habitat: medusa—species epi- to bathypelagic (Segura-Puertas 1984; Bonecker et al. 2014).