Bimeria vestita

Distribution in South America: polyp — Pacific Ocean, Ecuador, at 0.56 ° N 80.01 ° W in San Francisco Bay, Chile, at 29.18 ° S 71.50 ° W, and from 41.76 ° S to 53.78 ° S (Fraser 1938 a, 1948; Hartlaub 1905 p. 535; Galea 2007 p. 17; Galea et al. 2009 a p. 308; Galea & Schories 2012 a p. 22); Atlantic Ocean, Colombia, at Santa Marta coast, Venezuela, from Puerto Cabello to La Guaira, Brazil to Argentina, from 3 ° S to 4 ° S, at 9.84 ° S 35.85 ° W, from 10.50 ° S to 43 ° S (Vervoort 1967; Blanco 1974, 1994 a; Wedler 1975; Genzano 1992, 1994 a, 1994 b, 1998, 2001; Migotto 1996; Grohmann 1997; Grohmann et al. 1997; Rosso & Marques 1997; Genzano & Zamponi 1997, 1999, 2003; Genzano & Rodriguez 1998; Kelmo & Santa Isabel 1998; Migotto et al. 2002; Marques & Migotto 2003; Oliveira 2003; Grohmann 2006; Marques et al. 2006; Miranda & Marques 2006, abstract; Oliveira et al. 2006; Shimabukuro & Marques 2006 a, abstract; Shimabukuro et al. 2006; Shimabukuro 2007; Oliveira & Marques 2007, 2 0 11; Maronna et al. 2008, abstract; Amaral et al. 2009; Genzano et al. 2009 a, 2011; Grohmann et al. 2011; Silveira & Morandini 2011; Miranda et al. 2011, 2015; Bumbeer & Rocha 2012; Fernandez et al. 2014, 2015). Habitat: polyp — shallow waters, at intertidal zone (below the Phragmatopoma sp. zone) to 90 m depth, in sheltered places, on algae, fouling, bryozoans, hydroids (mainly on colonies of eudendriids, tubulariids and sertulariids), rock, sponges (Fraser 1938 a; Blanco 1974, 1994 a; Migotto 1996; Genzano & Zamponi 1999, 2003; Genzano & Rodriguez 1998; Kelmo & Santa Isabel 1998; Marques & Migotto 2003; Oliveira 2003; Marques et al. 2006; Oliveira et al. 2006; Shimabukuro et al. 2006; Shimabukuro & Marques 2006 a; Galea 2007; Oliveira & Marques 2007, 2011; Shimabukuro 2007; Galea et al. 2009 a; Miranda et al. 2011; Fernandez et al. 2014, 2015).