Sertularella tenella (Alder, 1856) Synonyms in the area: Sertularella tenella forme peculiaris —Leloup 1935 [polyp]; Sertularella geniculata —Leloup 1974 p. 28–29 [polyp]. Distribution in South America: polyp—Pacific Ocean, Colombia, at 6.78°N 77.60°W in Octavia Bay, Ecuador, from from 1.4°N to 1.5°S in Galápagos Archipelago, at 1.28°S 81.07°W in Isla La Plata, at 2.19°S 80.90°W in Santa Elena Bay, Peru, at 15.33°S 75.16°W in Bahia San Juan, Chile, from around 22°S to 55°S (Jäderholm 1905 p. 31; Fraser 1938a, 1938b, 1939, 1948; Leloup 1974 p. 28–29; Calder et al. 2003; Galea & Schories 2012a p. 45–46); Atlantic Ocean, at Aruba, at Curaçao, at Bonaire, Brazil, from 21.70°S to 23.77°S, from 27.13°S to 27.99°S, from 31.12°S to 31.33°S, and from 34.90°S to 42.58°S (Leloup 1935; Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen 1965; Grohmann et al. 2003, 2011; Fernandez et al. 2014, 2015; Miranda et al. 2015). Habitat: polyp—from 9 to 274m depth, on fouling and worm tubes (Jäderholm 1905 p. 31; Fraser 1938a, 1938b; Leloup 1974 p. 28–29; Calder et al. 2003; Grohmann et al. 2011; Galea & Schories 2012a p. 45–46; Fernandez et al. 2014, 2015).

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-256 in Zootaxa 4194 (1) on pages 122-123, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4194.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10068449