in temperate waters of the southwestern Atlantic Ocean

• Main Authors: Carolina Rodriguez, Gabriel Genzano, Hermes Mianzán
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key words; Eutonina scintillans; Leptomedusae; first record; temperate waters; southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Primer registro de Eutonina scintillans Bigelow; 1909 (Hydrozoa; Eirenidae; Antarctic; Antarc*; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.539.5483; http://www.scielo.cl/pdf/imar/v35n2/art14.pdf

Hydromedusae constitute one of richest groups in terms of biodiversity in the South Atlantic, account-ing for 197 of the recorded species (Bouillon, 1999). Nowadays, the group is growing due to taxonomic works on the cnidarians in the southwestern Atlantic (Genzano et al., 2006; Stampar et al., 2006; Stampar & Kodja, 2007). The first studies on hydromedusae in this area were based on samples collected during several Antarctic expeditions performed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century that occasionally collected specimens from Tierra del Fuego and the Malvinas Islands (Kramp, 1959 and