Muggiaea kochii (Will, 1844)

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 : 187

Muggiaea kochii (Will, 1844)

Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, off Peru (IMARPE database), Chile, at 23ºS (Bigelow 1911; Alvariño 1971); Atlantic Ocean, Colombia, from 17°N to 11°N (Montecaleano & Niño 1976; Giraldo & Villalobos 1983; Domínguez 2002), Venezuela, in Gulf of Cariaco (Legaré 1961; Alvariño 1971), Brazil to Argentina, from 2ºN to 39ºS (Leloup 1934; Leloup & Hentschel 1935; 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 mesopelagic, found in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters (Alvariño 1971, 1974; Abreu & Nogueira 1989; Nogueira & Oliveira 1991; Pugh 1999; Araujo 2012; Bonecker et al. 2014).