Diphyes dispar Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821 Distribution in South America: Pacific Ocean, Colombia, from 7.5°N to 1.5°N (Alvariño 1976; Cely & Chiquillo 1993), Peru, at 4.98°S 8.7°W (IMARPE database), Chile, at 33ºS off Valparaíso (Palma 1973, 1977), at 33.7ºS 78.8ºW in adjacent waters of Juan Fernández archipelago (Leloup 1932); Atlantic Ocean, Colombia, from 17°N to 11°N off San Andrés and Providencia Island (Giraldo & Villalobos 1983), at 11.2°N 74.2°W off Gaira Inlet (Domínguez 2002), Venezuela, at Gulf of Cariaco (Legaré 1961), Brazil to Argentina, from 0º to 45ºS (Leloup 1932, 1934; Leloup & Hentschel 1935; Seguin 1965; Alvariño 1968, 1971, 1981; Abreu & Nogueira 1989; Cordeiro & Montú 1991; Dias 1994; Pugh 1999; Migotto et al. 2002; Araujo 2006, 2012; Araujo et al. 2010; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Bonecker et al. 2014; Nishiyama et al. 2016). Habitat: neritic and oceanic species, epi- mesopelagic, found in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters (Alvariño 1971; Pugh 1974; Abreu & Nogueira 1989; Cordeiro & Montú 1991; Pagés & Gili 1992; Pugh 1999; Araujo 2012; Bonecker et al. 2014).

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 page 182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4194.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10068449