A review of the family Sphaeronectidae (Class Hydrozoa, Order Siphonophora), with the description of three new species Author P. R. Pugh text Zootaxa 2009 2147 1 48 journal article 1175-5326 Sphaeronectes fragilis Carré, 1968 (See Figure 16 ) Sphaeronectes fragilis Carré, 1968b, p. 1 , Pl. 1–2; 1968c, p. 84, Pl. 1, fig. 4; Bouillon et al. 2004, p. 230, fig. 141F,G; Gamulin & Kršinić, 2000, p. 137, fig. 87. Distribution: Sphaeronectes fragilis was described by C. Carré (1968b) from a score of specimens collected in a nonclosing net fished at 10 m depth in the entrance to the Rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer. Dallot et al . (1988) also found specimens at two stations in the western Mediterranean (Alborán Sea) and, apparently, on the Atlantic side of the Straits of Gibraltar , in vertical nets hauled from a maximum of 200 m . Ianora & Scotto di Carlo (1981) also found 12 specimens in the Bay of Naples between 50 and 300 m . In the eastern Mediterranean the species has been found in the Adriatic by Rottini (1966a,b), Gamulin (1977, 1982), Gamulin & Kršinić (1993a,b, 2000), and Lučić et al . (2005); the last authors finding it mainly concentrated at a depth of c. 100 m . Apart from record from Dallot et al . (1988), for just west of the Straits of Gibraltar , there appear to be no other Atlantic Ocean records for this species. However, it has been found on a number of occasions at various locations off the coast of Chile by Sergio Palma and his co-workers, e.g. Palma (2006), Palma & Rosales (1995, 1997), Apablaza & Palma (2006), and by Pagès & Orejas (1999). Sergio Palma (personal communication) informs me that he has been able to identify the eudoxid stage of this species.