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Issue: Vol. 3827 No. 3: 4 Jul. 2014
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2014-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.3.10
Page range: 397–400
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 3

Beroe gracilis (Ctenophora) from the Humboldt Current System: first occurrence of this species in the southern hemisphere

Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Rua São Paulo, s/n, Jd. Antares, 09606–070, São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil.
Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía y Programa de Magister en Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción, Barrio Universitario S/N, Concepción, Chile.
Escuela de Ciencias del Mar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, P.O. Box 1020, Valparaíso, Chile.
Beroidae ctenophore comb-jelly gelatinous zooplankton southeastern Pacific

Abstract

Beroe gracilis Künne, 1939 is a small neritic ctenophore, previously recorded only from cold waters of the northern hemisphere. The present study provides the first record of the species in the southern hemisphere, found in the surface layer of the Humboldt Current System off the central Chilean coast (32°–36.5° S). A complete description of this material is provided.