Bougainvillia frondosa Mayer, 1900

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 : 51

Bougainvillia frondosa Mayer, 1900

Distribution in South America: medusa—Atlantic Ocean, Brazil to Uruguay, from 7.55°S to 8.68°S, at 16.78°S 38.88°W, from 23.5°S to 27°S, from 29°S to 35.10°S (Vannucci 1957; Vannucci & Rees 1961; Moreira 1973; Navas-Pereira 1974, 1981; Goy 1979; Migotto et al. 2002; Nascimento 2010; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Nagata et al. 2014a, 2014b; Gusmão et al. 2015).

Habitat: medusa—stenothermic and euryhaline species, from 40 to 100m depth (Vannucci 1957; Navas-Pereira 1974; Nascimento 2010).