Lensia conoidea (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860)

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 : 184

Lensia conoidea (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860)

Synonyms in the area: Lensia truncata —Leloup 1934; Galeolaria truncata —Leloup 1932; Hardy & Gunther 1935.

Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, Chile, from 33ºS (Valparaíso) to 55ºS (Cape Horn) (Leloup 1932; Palma 1973, 1977, 1994; Palma & Rosales 1997; Palma et al. 1999, 2007b, 2011, 2014a; Ulloa et al. 2000; Palma & Aravena 2001; Villenas et al. 2009); Atlantic Ocean, Colombia, from 17°N to 11°N off San Andrés and Providencia Island between (Giraldo & Villalobos 1983), from 10.4°N to 10.2°N in Cartagena Bay (Moncaleano & Niño 1976), off French Guiana (Leloup & Hentschel 1935), Brazil to Argentina, from 0º to 60ºS, and eastern Falklands ( Malvinas) Islands (Leloup 1934; Hardy & Gunther 1935; Leloup & Hentschel 1935; Alvariño 1968, 1971, 1981; Nogueira & Oliveira 1991; Dias 1994; Pugh 1999; Migotto et al. 2002; Araujo 2006, 2012; Araujo et al. 2010; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Bonecker et al. 2014; Nishiyama 2016).

Habitat: neritic and oceanic species, epipelagic, found in tropical, subtropical, temperate and subantarctic waters (Alvariño 1971; Pugh 1999; Pagès & Gili 1992; Pugh & Gasca 2009; Araujo 2012; Bonecker et al. 2014; Nishiyama 2016; Nishiyama et al. 2016). This species is rare in the coastal waters of northern and central Chile , but is very abundant in the fjords and channels of southern Chile .